Five to six million tons of fresh coffee beans are produced each year, most of them traveling long distances, first from plantations, carried on animals, and then by land, water, rail, and today's air systems to all parts of the world.
As we have seen, coffee beans are stored and transported in the form of "parchment beans"(i.e., coated endocarp) until they are ready to be sold or exported (although this adds weight and increases the cost of storage and transportation), and almost all new coffee beans are packed in coarse fiber bags woven from jute and kenaf, each containing about 60 kg. In Hawaii, 45-kilogram bags are commonly used; in Colombia, 70-kilogram bags are more popular; and in Puerto Rico, 90-kilogram bags are sometimes used.
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