Roasted coffee is a sensitive cargo: the aroma, residual moisture and CO₂ release of freshly roasted beans react to temperature fluctuations, foreign odours and long standing times. Speed Logistics transports coffee – whole beans, ground roasted coffee, capsules and pods – as direct transport without transhipment from the roastery to wholesalers, to central warehouses or straight to branches. This keeps the goods in one pair of hands throughout and gets them to the consignee on time.
Whether palletised valve bags, cartoned goods or POS displays: you receive a fixed-price offer within a few hours, and the dispatch team looks after your shipment personally and around the clock.
Aroma protection and temperature control for coffee transport
Coffee should be transported cool, dry and odour-neutral – ideally at stable temperatures of around 15–18 °C without direct sunlight. For temperature-sensitive lanes, for example in high summer or towards Southern Europe, we deploy temperature-controlled vehicles with documented climate control. Just as important: no mixed loading with strongly smelling goods such as chemicals, tyres or spices. With a direct transport using an exclusive load space, exactly that is ruled out – your coffee travels alone.
Typical shipments from roasteries and coffee traders
- Palletised roasted-coffee batches from the roastery to the retail central warehouse
- Capsule and pod production from the filler to the distribution centre
- Green-coffee part quantities in sacks or big bags between warehouse and roastery
- POS displays and promotional goods with a fixed delivery date per branch
- Express replenishment when a batch sells out at short notice
For deliveries to retail warehouses we work to the slot: time-window booking, delivery notification and pallet-suitable delivery with tail lift are standard.
Process and transit times
You report the number of pallets, weight, loading and unloading point and the time window – we calculate the right vehicle, from the Sprinter for a few pallets to the articulated lorry for a full truckload. Within Germany, deliveries are usually possible within 24 hours; European direct transports reach most economic centres in one to three working days. GPS tracking during the journey and the CMR consignment note as proof of delivery are included.
Sending coffee abroad – including customs clearance
For exports to non-EU countries such as Türkiye, North Africa or the Gulf region, Speed Logistics handles the complete customs clearance: export declaration, proofs of preference and import clearance in the destination country, up to DDP on request. With foodstuffs such as coffee in particular, clean commodity classification and complete trade documentation matter – we check this before departure so the shipment does not get held up at the border. Costs depend on quantity, lane and deadline; depending on lead time, we quote you a binding fixed price door to door.
Packaging and palletising of coffee shipments
Stable transports begin at the pallet: valve bags and cartoned goods should be stacked flush at the edges, secured against slipping with intermediate layers and fixed with stretch film and edge protectors – coffee is heavy, and slipping layers quickly damage the packaging of the bottom row. We check big bags of green coffee for weight per pallet space and load distribution in the vehicle. If your packaging is critical for the lane, the dispatch team tells you before collection – not first at the ramp. On request we take on additional transport securing such as strapping or double stretch-wrapping during loading, so the goods survive the route over country roads, motorway and, where applicable, border clearance undamaged.