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The new weekly Matson service to Long Beach will begin in mid-August and be in full deployment by early October. Matson Navigation Company announced Thursday that it is expanding its service between China and the Port of Long Beach by adding a second string of vessels. The new vessels will provide service from the ports of [...] Some 20,000 tons of trash has piled up at Campbell Industrial Park since Hawaiian Waste Systems was awarded the contract in September to begin shipping Oahu’s trash to the mainland [Port of Longview, WA]. As the delays dragged on, Hawaiian Waste Systems had been cited by the Health Department for storing 20,000 tons of trash in [...] Federal officials Thursday cleared the way for a Seattle company to start shipping Honolulu garbage to Central Washington through the Port of Longview. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (has) said the project will not pose any significant risk to the environment. As soon as the agency and Hawaiian Waste Systems LLC sign a compliance agreement, the [...] Shipping of O’ahu garbage to the Mainland has been pushed back yet again, this time until at least the end of April. City and state officials last week said they’ve been told by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that it won’t be until then that Hawaiian Waste Systems LLC gets the OK to send barges [...] The slot charter agreement between Horizon Lines and Maersk Line on the Trans-Pacific 1 (TP1) service will end in December 2010. This weekly service currently calls Yantian, Xiamen, Kaohsiuing, Los Angeles, Oakland, Honolulu and Guam. Horizon Lines operates five vessels in this service. Maersk Line has been utilizing the entire 1100 FFE capacity eastbound, and [...] A Matson ship arrives in Honolulu from the Port of Oakland. Matson Navigation earned a fourth quarter operating profit of $13.5 million, which was down 36 percent from the $21.1 million it earned in the same quarter of 2008. Matson’s revenue slid by 2 percent to $234.8 million from $239.5 million in the previous year [...] Pasha's MV Jean Anne carries 3,000 autos between Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast. Horizon Lines and Pasha Hawaii Transport Lines have matched Matson Navigation Co. and increased their Hawaii-mainland fuel surcharges to 27.5 percent, effective Feb. 7. Pasha, which carries vehicles between Honolulu and San Diego, had the biggest increase as its raised its [...] Matson ship in San Francisco Hawaii’s largest ocean shipper said “rapidly rising fuel-related costs” are prompting it to raise its fuel by 3.5 percentage points to 27.5 percent for its Hawaii- mainland service. In addition, the state’s largest ocean shipper is boosting its fuel surcharge by 3.5 percentage points to 29 percent for its Guam/Commonwealth [...] A new-year hike in prices for shipping to and from Hawaii is a combination of the rate hike to ship a container and an increase to handling charges. Westbound containers: up $120; Westbound handling fee: up $125; Eastbound containers: up $60; Eastbound handling fee: up $60. “This rate increase will help offset rises in operating [...] A Matson ship that received major work at a Chinese shipyard may continue to operate in Jones Act service, the U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia ruled. The court turned back a complaint by the Shipbuilders Council of America and Pasha Hawaii Transport Lines that the work done in China on the Matson ship Mokihana [...] Hawaii’s tariffs have not been increased since 1997 and the state’s commercial harbors, which suffer limited berth space, terminal resources, and crumbling docks, have not received a major upgrade in 20 years. If the tariff hikes are approved by Gov. Linda Lingle, they will be implemented in early 2010, with gradual increases over a five-year [...] Matson Navigation Co.’s container traffic to and from Hawaii is on course this year to finish lower than in 2001, a reflection of the downturn in construction and the economy in general. Hawaii’s largest shipping company’s container volume is one highly visible indicator of the state economy, carrying more boxes of construction materials and more [...] |
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