Case Study: Chiquita achieves a single corporate TMS and increased container utilization with BluJay Solutions' Transportation Management

A Single Corporate TMS Implementation is Key for Chiquita Express

Chiquita, a leading global producer and distributor of bananas and owner of Fresh Express (the top U.S. packaged-salad brand), manages a complex transportation network including more than 9,000 company-owned containers and multiple business divisions. After acquiring Fresh Express, Chiquita faced fragmented operations with three disparate legacy TMS installations, time-consuming sourcing, limited visibility, and underused backhaul capacity that prevented it from leveraging its full transportation spend.

BluJay’s Transportation Management consolidated four divisions onto a single corporate TMS, enabling centralized planning with decentralized execution, automated RFPs and routing guides, and a single integration point. The implementation delivered end-to-end shipment visibility, increased container backhaul utilization, LTL multi-stop consolidations, cost reductions in Fresh Select through private-market capacity sourcing, simplified carrier payments, and measurable operational efficiencies across the corporation.

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