Available
Uganda · Masaka & Greater Lake Victoria
- Species
- Robusta
- Process
- Natural
- Grade
- Screen 15
- Screen
- 15+
- Crop
- 2025/26
- Quantity
- Multi-container programme
Commercial
Commercial Green Coffee
Contracted on specification and consistency rather than on lot identity: grade, screen with tolerance, defect basis, moisture ceiling, crop year and shipment pattern. Usually bought as a programme across a season.
Specification
Volume grades by origin
What each origin supplies at commercial scale, and what the grade encodes.
| Origin | Grade | Species | Screen | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uganda | Screen 15 | Robusta | 15+ | The volume workhorse. Two harvest cycles support near year-round supply. |
| Uganda | Screen 18 | Robusta | 18+ | Premium size class where bean uniformity matters to the roast. |
| Uganda | Screen 14 / 12 / FAQ | Robusta | 12–14 / unsized | Price-led blending and soluble. FAQ requires the fullest specification. |
| Tanzania | AB | Arabica | 16–17 | The largest single block in a typical outturn. |
| Tanzania | Kagera screen 15+ | Robusta | 15+ | Dry-processed, contracted on screen and defect terms. |
| Kenya | AB | Arabica | 15–16 | Frequently the best value on a cup-per-dollar basis. |
| Kenya | C | Arabica | 14 and below | Small-screen separation from the same cherry as the larger grades. |
| Ethiopia | Grade 4 / 5 natural | Arabica | — | The commercial backbone of Ethiopian supply. |
Contracting
Programme terms
- Specification
- Grade, screen with tolerance, defect basis, moisture ceiling with method, foreign matter limit
- Volume
- Total across the season and per shipment, with tolerance
- Shipment pattern
- Fixed schedule, or call-off with a stated notice period
- Price basis
- Differential to the futures reference, nominated months, fixation window
- Quality governance
- A governing sample; each shipment verified against it
- Crop transition
- How the crop-year changeover is handled and re-approved
- Packaging
- 60 kg jute, or bulk container liner for single-grade volume
- Certification
- 4C is common on commercial volumes
- Incoterm
- FOB, CFR or CIF with a named port
Consistency beats peak quality
A shipment that arrives noticeably better than the last one is a problem in the same way a worse one is — the roast profile and the finished product were built around the specification, not around the best parcel. Programme supply is governed by one sample and verified against it, rather than approved parcel by parcel.
Agree the substitution protocol in advance
Crops vary. What happens when a specification cannot be filled — substitution against agreed parameters, deferral to a later shipment, or release — should be in the contract from the outset rather than negotiated under pressure.
Price basis
Arabica references the ICE Arabica contract and Robusta the London Robusta contract, quoted as a differential with a nominated month and a fixation window. A differential without a month is not a price — see coffee trade terms.
Availability
Commercial lots
- Available
Uganda · Masaka & Greater Lake Victoria
- Species
- Robusta
- Process
- Natural
- Grade
- Screen 18
- Screen
- 18+
- Crop
- 2025/26
- Quantity
- 3 × 20ft
- Upcoming crop
Uganda · West Nile (Okoro)
- Species
- Arabica
- Process
- Natural (DRUGAR)
- Grade
- DRUGAR screen 15+
- Screen
- 15+
- Crop
- 2025/26
- Quantity
- 1 × 20ft
Dried fig · Spice · Cocoa
- On contract
Ethiopia · Djimma (Jimma)
- Species
- Arabica
- Process
- Natural
- Grade
- Grade 4
- Crop
- 2025/26
- Quantity
- 2 × 20ft
- On contract
Tanzania · Kagera
- Species
- Robusta
- Process
- Natural (dry-processed)
- Grade
- Screen 15 up
- Screen
- 15+
- Crop
- 2025/26
- Quantity
- 2 × 40ft
Contract a programme
Tell us the annual volume, the specification and the shipment pattern. We will confirm what the origins support across the season, and what the crop-year transition means for your blend.
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Related reading
- Commercial Green CoffeeHow commercial green coffee is bought: specification over lot identity, programme contracts, governing samples and the crop-year transition.
- Bulk Green CoffeeBulk green coffee from East Africa: container and multi-container volumes, bulk liner or bagged presentation, contracted on screen, defect and moisture terms.
- Coffee Trade TermsThe working vocabulary of green coffee trading: differentials, the C price, contract types, quality clauses, weight terms, payment and what each one commits you to.
- Container Loading for Green CoffeeHow many bags of green coffee fit in a 20ft or 40ft container — and why the honest answer is a calculation, not a number. Payload limits and stow patterns.
- 4C CertificationHow 4C certification works for green coffee: what the baseline standard requires, where it fits against premium schemes, and its role in commercial and Robusta volumes.
- Current Crop vs Past CropWhat distinguishes current crop from past crop green coffee, why storage matters more than age, how to recognise the difference, and how to contract around it.