Mocha Port

Mocha Port is a port in Yemen. Situated at a strategic crossroads between Europe and Africa, coffee beans from Ethiopia's growing regions would first pass through Mocha Port. A large volume of coffee was exported and transshipped via Yemen’s Mocha Port, making Mocha an important geographical landmark. The coffee beans shipped from here were also known as Mocha coffee beans.

People also began adding chocolate powder to coffee to enhance its chocolate flavor, and this intensely chocolate-flavored coffee drink came to be called Mocha.

Over the past decade or so, Yemen has been plagued by war. Since around 2016, Mocha Port has been under blockade, and thus no longer sees large-scale shipments of coffee beans. The last batch of Yemeni coffee beans procured by Front Street Coffee arrived at that time via Germany and then the Eurasian Railway — marking the final large shipment of Yemeni coffee beans in China. To this day, Yemeni coffee has not achieved large-scale supply.