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Engine Room Fire on Containership Injures Four at Port of Wilmington

Mike Schuler November 26, 2025

Firefighters were called to the Port of Wilmington on Wednesday morning after flames erupted in the engine room of a docked vessel.

The emergency call came in at 9:28 a.m. for a fire aboard the M/V Chiquita Voyager, a Liberia-flagged containership. Firefighters arrived to find smoke billowing from the ship’s superstructure, prompting an immediate multi-agency response.

Firefighters boarded the vessel to begin suppression operations and evacuate crew members. The fire, which was confined to the engine room, was aided by the ship’s onboard suppression system that helped contain the flames to their area of origin.

Crews worked for approximately three hours to bring the incident under control, though fire units remained on scene throughout the day to monitor for potential flare-ups.

Four crew members sustained injuries during the fire and were transported to Christiana Hospital by EMS for treatment. The severity of their injuries was not immediately disclosed.

The response drew roughly 70 fire and EMS personnel from multiple agencies, including Wilmington Fire Department units, New Castle County EMS, New Castle County Emergency Management, and mutual aid from several New Castle County fire departments.

The Wilmington Fire Department and other responding agencies are expected to remain at the port to investigate the cause of the fire and monitor conditions aboard the ship.

The Port of Wilmington is a full-service deepwater port and marine terminal strategically located on the Delaware River with extensive warehousing capabilities and direct access to major interstate highways and Class-I rail service.

In June, Enstructure, a leading U.S. terminal and logistics company, announced a new long-term agreement with Chiquita Brands to continue and further expand its partnership at Port Wilmington, Delaware as its mid-Atlantic distribution hub. The agreement builds upon an existing partnership established in 1988 when Chiquita first consolidated its mid-Atlantic supply chain operations at Port Wilmington.

Since then, Port Wilmington has become Chiquita’s largest port operation in North America, handling a fully containerized service between Central America and Wilmington, which regularly discharges bananas, pineapples, and other tropical fruits and vegetables, supplying more than 200 million U.S. and Canadian consumers. Chiquita currently makes a weekly vessel call to Port Wilmington.

Port Wilmington is a leading gateway for imported perishable cargo and operates one of North America’s largest on-dock cold storage complexes. The Port is operated by Enstructure under a long-term concession agreement as part of a public-private partnership at Port Wilmington with the owner, Diamond State Port Corporation (DSPC), a State of Delaware entity.

https://gcaptain.com/engine-room-fire-on-containership-injures-four-at-port-of-wilmington/

>>23907787 (me)

Chiquita Voyager just came to Wilmington from the on boatfag watch list Porto Cortes Guatemala because once their promo photos included a little kid of about seven walking around the docks

and lots of smaller ships go from there to Port Canaveral, district of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz

>>23907806 (me again)

But I'm sure in 2025 everything is just fine

The Cia and the United Fruits Company (Now Chiquita)

5 January 2020

Sometimes history makes me very angry. This is one of these times. In 1954 the CIA launched a coup d tat in Guatemala and deposed the democratically elected president, Jacobo rbenz. rbenz had introduced, among others, a land reform to help rural farmers. The coup was most strongly lobbied for by the United Fruits Company (now Chiquita Brands International) who was one of the main targets of that land reform. At the time, the United Fruits Company made an annual profit of $65 million (twice as much as the the revenue of the Guatemalan government) and was the largest landowner in Guatemala. 85% of the land it possessed was not cultivated and idle. The land reform expropriated idle land from large landowners and compensated them for it. This land was then to be given to the poor. The compensation was based on the value that those landowners themselves had reported two years earlier for tax purposes. Of course, the United Fruit Company had grossly under-reported the value of their land to avoid taxes. Unsatisfied with this policy the United Fruit company lobbied the United States government and the CIA to launch a coup against the supposedly communist Guatemalan government. Extra bonus: CIA director Allen Dulles was once on the board of directors of the company and his brother John Foster Dulles served as their lawyer. Eventually, Operation PBSUCCESS was carried out and the democratically elected president was replaced by a dictator, Carlos Castillo Armas. Before the coup, Guatemala had begun to become a flourishing country and one of the first democracies in Latin America. After the coup, forty years of bloody civil war ensued in which guerrillas fought against several US-backed authoritarian regimes in Guatemala. In an attempt to counter the bad press that had followed the coup, the US (unsuccessfully) launched Operation PBHISTORY to frame what had happened as a consequence of Soviet interference in the country. United Fruits Company is now Chiqitua Brands International. In recent years the company has been criticized for mistreating workers, abusing its dominant market position, paying terrorist groups (although, to be fair, in order to protect their workers) and questionable environmental practices. Guatemala still suffers from the aftermath of the coup and could have been a very different country indeed.

https://followtheargument.org/the-cia-and-the-united-fruits-company-now-chiquita

>>23907806 (drat, me again)

Correction:

Puertos Cortes, Honduras

Not Guatemala

>>23907701