Concern grows for global coffee supply amid Vietnam lockdown
by Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#5P0R0)
Traders are struggling to get beans to ports for export after Covid curbs were imposed on Ho Chi Minh City
Concerns are growing over global coffee supplies amid tough coronavirus travel restrictions imposed in Vietnam to tackle the spread of the aggressive Delta variant of Covid-19.
Supply chains are been disrupted after Vietnam, the world's second-biggest exporter of coffee, tightened lockdown measures in the port of Ho Chi Minh City, as well as bringing in restrictions in some coffee-growing areas of the Central Highlands.
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