About us
Between a Kenyan wet mill and your roastery
Simon Karanja Coffee Exports Ltd. works at the top of the chain: we buy the fresh crop from cooperatives and small estates, oversee processing and cupping, clear the export paperwork and follow the container through to your warehouse.
How we work
Four principles behind every shipment
None of these is a slogan. Each one is something you can check against the sample, the cupping sheet and the documents that travel with the coffee.
Bright, structured cups
Blackcurrant and tomato acidity, juicy body and a long finish — the character SL28 and SL34 develop on volcanic soils at altitude.
Sustainable production
We buy through farmer cooperatives and small estates: a fair cherry price, responsible water handling at the wet mills, slow drying on raised beds.
Supply you can plan around
Volumes are committed against the harvest, not scraped together after it: confirmed tonnage per season, fixed shipping windows, feedback on every lot.
Full traceability
Each lot carries its cooperative, wet mill, county, altitude, variety and harvest date. The cupping sheet ships with the coffee.
Our role
A link in the chain, not a broker in the middle
We do not pick coffee up at auction after the fact. We work directly with cooperative wet mills before the harvest is in, which is why we can confirm volume, profile and shipping window in advance.
Every lot is cupped in house before a container is booked. If the profile has drifted from the sample you approved, the lot does not ship. That costs us margin and saves you a claim.
Our Nairobi export office handles the documents and the inland leg to the port of Mombasa — invoice, packing list, certificate of origin, phytosanitary certificate, ICO marks and the lot's cupping sheet. From there it moves FOB Mombasa, CFR or CIF, 25–32 days at sea to Novorossiysk or St Petersburg with the lines we ship on regularly.
Coffee travels in 60 kg jute over GrainPro, or vacuum packs for sample lots. Trial shipments start at a single bag; a full 20-foot container is booked against the same contract and the same cupping standard.
Our commitment
Three things we answer for
- Quality, not leftovers
Lots are chosen on the cupping table, not from what is still in the warehouse. If the profile does not match, it does not ship.
- Straight pricing
One quote, broken out into FOB, freight and charges. Clear payment terms, no margin hidden in the logistics line.
- Season-to-season partnership
We reserve tonnage against your annual plan and hold the same profile from one crop to the next.