Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Costa Rican coffee exports in December, the third month of the new 2008-09 crop cycle, rose 41% to 88,966 bags of 60 kilograms each, the official Costa Rican Coffee Institute, or Icafe, said Monday.
This compares to Costa Rican exports of 63,316 bags in December 2007 during the 2007-08 crop cycle (October-September), an Icafe said, citing first preliminary figures for the month.
Total Costa Rican coffee exports in the first three months of the 2008-09 crop cycle from Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, meanwhile, were up 25% to 204,663 bags from exports of 163,337 bags in the October-December period of the 2007-08 year.
Physical harvesting of Costa Rica’s 2008-09 harvest is now underway across most of the country’s producing regions and is expected to start in earnest this month in most of the country’s key producing high-altitude areas.
Coffee from the new crop normally doesn’t start reaching the market until December and exports shipped in the first few months of the new cycle traditionally consist almost exclusively of previous-crop beans.
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
The Palmareña Civic Association just announced the final line-up of international artists that will be performing at the Palmares Civic Parties that will begin Wednesday of next week. A massive concert by Puerto Rican urban music group Calle 13 will close the parties on Sunday, Jan. 25 at noon. The Residente and Visitante (group members’ nicknames) will also have a chance to warm up their vocal chords for a smaller crowd on Saturday, Jan. 24 at a smaller concert in the Barra Imperial megabar. Tickets for this event are expected to be around $15. (more…)
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
A project by the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE by its initials in Spanish), will require road transport of 20 fuel tanks, loaded with 470,000 liters per day, between port Moin (Limon) and Montes de Oro (Puntarenas) in Costa Rica.
Throughout this journey of 265 kilometers, the tanks must pass through part of the congested San Jose metropolitan area. Each truck will carry more than 23,000 liters of petroleum called bunker.
This fuel will be used to supply the power plant at Garabito, which is built by ICE in a farm in Montes de Oro, near the Inter-American highway north. The site is located five kilometers northwest of the junction to the town of Miramar. (more…)
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