Title: Chiquita Banana Supply Chain
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Chiquita Banana Supply Chain
Map of the general supply chain of Chiquita Banana
Overview of Supply Chain
Chiquita Displaces Locations
The Good and Bad of Chiquita
Governance
Chiquita and the WTO
Labor
Labor Conditions and "Race to Bottom"
Attempts at Improvement
Environment
More Environmental Impacts
Discourse, Images, and Brand Identity
Discourse, Images, and Brand Identity (cont.)
Discourse, Images, Brand Identity (cont.)

Content: The bananas continue to be refrigerated by container or in bulk refrigerated holds during the ocean voyage. Once they arrive in port they are transported to warehouses/ripening facilities near the port. From there they are transported to Chiquita's or a retailers distribution center. Finally they are moved to retail/grocery stores to be consumed
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Chiquita Displaces Locations
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Between 1939 and 1953 Chiquita abandoned more than 12,000 hectares of unproductive and diseased land in Central America
Chiquita disposed of 1200 ha of less productive land in Honduras in the mid-1990s. When disease and other conditions harmed Jamaican banana production and made it more costly, the UK turned to Central America (where it was cheaper) for its banana imports, and the Jamaican economy greatly suffered
Half the population of the Caribbean relied on the banana industry to supply their basic needs such as food, shelter and education. Once the WTO ruled in favor of Chiquita and other TNC’s, the Caribbean economy suffered greatly. Large transnational banana companies, such as Chiquita that control wages, prices in the global banana trade, are threats to small farmers. There is huge competition over being the port of choice for Chiquita. In 2014, New Orleans using huge state financial incentives, was able to secure Chiquita’s business after they decided to move their operations from Gulfport, MS. Chiquita shipped around 164,000TEU’s a year through Gulfport, the largest carrier of Gulfport.