Warehousing,
Specialty Coffee Freight & Shipping Services
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We serve our partner coffee bean PRODUCERS, importers & roasters of specialty coffee
Costa Oro International is based in Portland, OR and has been serving the specialty coffee industry since 2002. Our focus is bringing together the highest standards of warehousing, handling, and nationwide distribution of green coffee, while providing a flexible and receptive environment to conduct business.
Our business was created to help businesses like yours provide excellent handling of green coffee and superb shipping from our loading dock, to your customer's site.
COSTA ORO OFFERS PERSONALIZED SERVICE AND WE ARE DEDICATED TO YOUR SUCCESS!
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Dedicated green coffee distribution
Our Services
Provides storage and handling of ocean containers, boxcars, rail containers, and full truck loads.
Costa Oro ships quantities of single bags, small micro lots, and full truck loads of specialty coffee.
Coordinates drayage services for transporting containers from the port of entry to our facility.
Provides reconditioning services, certified weighing, sampling, FDA onsite exams, and monthly inventory reporting.
Provides moisture readings upon request.
Organic certified for OSDA (Oregon State Department of Agriculture).
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News & Events
Update: 3/12/2020 | COVID-19
March 12, 2020
Dear Specialty Coffee Partners,
As you know, here at Costa Oro Intl, we are dedicated and committed to your success. We want to be sure that you and your specialty roaster customers know that we are taking every precaution to prevent the spread of the virus through a regimen of regular hand-washing and use of anti-bacterial products as well as guiding staff on the importance of minimizing person-to-person contact.
If any Costa Oro team member has displayed signs or is not feeling well, they are being encouraged to work from home, when possible. We are in the process of conducting an internal audit of our operations to prepare for any potential disruptions or delays caused in other areas of the supply chain.
As for now, there will be no interruption in our operation and service levels, unless mandated by a government agency. We will continue to monitor the situation and keep you apprised.
Please feel free to pass this notice along to your customers and if they have any questions or concerns, I would be more than happy to address them.
Thank you for your continued support & please know that we welcome any communications with our importers, suppliers & roasters as we move through this process together.
Arianna M. Hartstrom
Founder, CEO
Costa Oro Intl. LLC.
+1 503 661 5511 | +1 503 969 3095 (US Cell/WhatsApp)
info@costa-oro.com |www.costa-oro.com
4825 NE 185th DR. Portland, OR 97230/ USA | 2505 Frank Albert Rd. E B-103 Fife, WA 98424/ USA
PNW Green Coffee Solutions | Dedicated to your success.
Stir Business Insight for the Tea & Coffee Industry: Making Up for Lost Time
“Oregon has three times more exports than imports so it’s really hurting
the shippers going outbound,” said Arianna Hartstrom, Costa Oro founder and c.e.o. “They have to truck the product and it’s adding transit time and costs.”
Despite the loss, Portland remains a viable market for green coffee storage, she said. Door-to-door costs have only increased marginally and Hartstrom remains bullish about the Oregon market.
The nearest ports are 150 miles north at the Port of Tacoma or 30 miles farther at the Port of Seattle. All green coffee coming into Costa Oro must be trucked south.
Roast Magazine: Valuing Our Mid-Chain Partners
Third-party logistics providers such as Dupuy and East Bay Logistics, based in Hayward, California, also generally find transparency requirements helpful as a means of engaging their customers in important dialogue around costs and margins. However, as Arianna Hartstrom, founder of Costa Oro International, based in Portland, Oregon, mentions, “Green coffee warehousing is highly competitive and standardized. Increases in billing rates are infrequent and must be presented to our partners with ample notice.” Importers face a similar highly competitive and standardized pricing landscape.
“I’ve been warehousing coffee with Costa Oro since they opened in 2001. They are a customer-service-oriented business and they aim to make it easy to do business with them. I highly recommend Costa Oro.”
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Costa Oro Corporate Office
Melissa Lanceta: melissa@costa-oro.com
Costa Oro Portland
4825 NE 185th Dr. Portland, OR 97230
Roxana Arguello 503-661-5511
Portland@costa-oro.com
Costa Oro Seattle
440 E 19th Street Tacoma, WA 98421
Shane Avery 253-878-5086
Seattle@costa-oro.com
Costa Oro Chicago
2620 90th St. Sturtevant, WI 53177
Liz Velez (262) 456-7075
Chicago@costa-oro.com
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Our Honey Bee Cause
Since 2015, our founder, Arianna Hartstrom, has taken a special interest in honey bee education. The importance of education in the process of bringing to light the highly dependent relationship that us humans have with honey bees, cannot be underestimated.
Costa Oro has joined forces with The Bee Cause Project & local beekeepers to sponsor observation hives that have been installed in the following elementary schools:
The Portland Waldorf School
St. John Fisher School
The Gardner School of Arts & Sciences
If you are a roaster or importer who is interested in our honey bee cause, please contact us at: info@costa-oro.com. We are always on the lookout for new school candidates & opportunities to work with fellow honey bee enthusiasts and via our professional working relationship we would love to sponsor the next honey bee hive and put your name on it!
Join The Bee (Cause) Project
How can your school become a part of The Bee Cause Project?
It’s easy! Contact us here at Costa Oro if you are interested in hosting a colony of honey bees in your local school or library.
Requirements include:
• Applicant must be a non-profit school or children’s organization that works with students in the grade range from kindergarten through college level.
• The honeybee hive must be used as an educational tool.
• The principal or executive director must be aware of and supportive of the honeybee hive.
• A certified beekeeper must commit to support and maintain the hive as a “Mentor.”
• There must be an individual at the school designated as “Bee Advocate.”
“Bees live as people should live: naturally, symbiotically, and in a manner that only contributes positively to the world around them.”
A selection of thank you cards from The Portland Waldorf School students.