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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> TRANSPORTATION <br /> <br /> <br /> Hawaii's lifeline to the rest of the world relies on the capability of utoving all products <br /> either inter-island or trans-ocean, and depends upon three modes of transportation: barging, trans- <br /> <br /> ocean shipping and air transportation. <br /> <br /> Barging has long been used as the major means of transporting products inter-island <br /> hctwecn the major shipping ports of Hilo, Matti, Honolulu, etc. By barging containers to these <br /> <br /> locations they can be loaded on Matson Shipping Lines and taken to all points of the Pacific. <br /> Local products can be shipped inter-island when seas are calm enough to permit passage. With the <br /> exception of a few air freight systems moving into and out of Honolulu. a primary means of <br /> transport has been the airlifts provided by the commercial passenger airlines. In analyzing the <br /> <br /> possibility of am major expansion to accommodate the growth of products that need to be shipped <br /> cithu out of the islands or received into the islands, there are several factors to be considered. <br /> <br /> <br /> Matson Shipping can handle many kinds of freight, including hard products, frozen <br /> products, and lire gram plants shipped in containers. However, this depends upon the capacity of <br /> the vessel and die direction in which it is sailing. They cannot take on extra freight if the space is <br /> not available, and it would take a huge amount of freight to the point of impossibility, to bring in <br /> <br /> another vessel or to have a vessel make it special stop. Matson will accommodate the islands as <br /> much as possible, as long as it is economically feasible. <br /> <br /> Oceangoing barges have been and are being used to transport large objects and large <br /> <br /> shipments that can withstand rough seas and longjourneys. Young Brothers Inter-island barging <br /> handles a great quantity of both hard goods and perishables, but one has to think of the possibility <br /> of not being able to barge enough products to make it worthwhile increasing their fleet. <br /> <br /> <br /> Inter-island air freight has been limited mainly to the conversion of passenger planes by <br /> Aloha Airlines for hauling larger amounts of freight, as well as snnaller packages on their <br /> <br /> commercial air passenger flights. Hawaiian Airlines have limited themselves to smaller freight, <br /> loaded as belly freight on their passenger flights. American International has run some flights and <br /> are attempting some flights inter-island using a 727 jet. This plane allox~s for a fair size container <br /> but it cannot land and take off on the island of Molokai. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> 8 <br />