Mill Mountain Coffee Company produces various blends of Free Trade, organic specialty coffees that it sells to wholesale customers. The company imports 28 million pounds of coffee beans annually from coffee plantations in Brazil, Indonesia, Kenya, Colombia, Cote D€™lvoire, and Guatemala. The beans are shipped from these countries to U.S. ports in Galveston, New Orleans, Savannah, and Jacksonville, where it is loaded onto container trucks and shipped to the company€™s plant in upstate New York. The shipping costs ($/million lbs) from the countries to the U.S. ports, the amount of beans (in millions of lbs) contracted from the growers in each country, and the port capacities are shown in the following table.

The shipping costs from each port to the plant in New York are shown in the following table.
U.S. Port 11. New York
7. Mobile .......$61,000
8. New Orleans .....55,000
9. Savannah .....38,000
10. Jacksonville .....43,000
Determine the optimal shipments from the grower countries to the plant in New York that will minimize shippingcosts.

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Grower U.S. Port 1. Brazil 2 Colombia 3. Indonesia 4. Kenya 5. Cote d'lvoire 35,000 33,000 6.Guatemala 4,000 17,000 7 Mobile B. New Orleans . Savannah 0. Jacksoille Supply $30,000 $36,000 $29,000 $1000 59 4.3 3.8 6.7 2.5 4.8 35,000 39,000 41,000 29,000 28,000 19,000 23,000 53,000 47,000 45,000 54,000 28,000 45,000 48,000 27,000 24,000