A study case on coffee (Coffea arabica): Limu Coffe - IRD

and unloading fees: 3.25 birr/bag
Warehouse storage charge 0.04 birr per bag and per day
Delivery notice On T+1
Pick up notice (PUN) Member must fill out a pick up notice with
the exchange before picking up goods to the
warehouse. After delivery notice is issued
and before T+4.
Delivery period T+4 calendar days.
Failure to pick up If the buyer doesn’t pick up coffee within the
delivery period, there will be a 1% charge
per day of the value of the trade.
Table 18: ECX transaction rules (Ethiopia Commodity Exchange Authority)
The buyers then take the coffee bags they bought, presenting their pick up notice, and
according to the FIFO method (First In First Out) bags are taken from the corresponding bags
piles. This step is the reason why specialty market is dead. It is not possible to follow each
bag or truck; they get mixed because of this FIFO method. Even if there is a data base where
traceability of each truck is registered, the last traceability steps are not realized.
Illustration 40: ECX arrival coffee warehouse
(Adrien, 16 th June 2009)
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