The voyage is part of the product.
Coffee, cacao and rum, carried under sail
We do not grow, roast or sell anything. We carry other people's cargo: coffee, cacao and rum for roasters, chocolate makers and importers in the Netherlands, Germany and France. They build a brand around the crossing, and their customers buy the product and the voyage together.
See who we sail for →Verified at the source, in person
We sail to Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Suriname, among other countries. While the ship lies alongside, we go inland to the farms and cooperatives our cargo comes from. We walk the plots, meet the growers and the field workers, and settle the terms at their kitchen table instead of over email. That is how we know who grew every sack in the hold. Traceability from seed to sail.
Presenting climate-resilient shipping at FICCA 2025
Kaap Kargo presented its model of wind-powered freight at the International Coffee, Cacao and Agrotourism Fair, alongside the producers whose work our voyages are meant to match.
Life on board
From the logbook
Porto Santo to Santa Marta
The last provisions come aboard at Porto Santo. Then the trade wind carries Ide Min west, without a stop, to the coast of Colombia.
Alice, shipmate: getting to know myself at sea
Alice Cherki from France embarked at Douarnenez and joined the transatlantic voyage to Colombia as a shipmate. In her own words: the night watches, the ropes that all look the same, and what a few months at sea gave back.
The first crossing
One small ship, LUN II, and a question: can cargo still cross the Atlantic under sail, commercially, today? In 2022 she answered it.