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Matson continues with its fleet renewal programme to improve its Hawaii service
MATSON Inc's subsidiary Matson Navigation Company has replaced one of its three barges dedicated to serving Hawaii's neighbour island ports with a newer barge that is able to carry 180 more TEU, or 8,000 tonnes more cargo, than the vessel it replaces.
The container barge Columbia, to be renamed Mauna Loa, is now the company's largest barge in its fleet. At 360 feet long, with a beam of 100 feet and cargo carrying capacity of 12,600 tonnes or 500 TEU, it is 12 feet longer and 40 feet wider than the barge it replaces.
Built in 2012 by Gunderson Marine and classified as a deck cargo barge with 33,000 square feet of deck cargo space, the vessel's design enables swifter and more fuel-efficient transits. Its deck is unobstructed to allow greater flexibility in loading containers and over-dimensional cargo.
Matson's barge upgrade comes at a time of heavy investment in its Hawaii service. The company purchased three new gantry cranes and upgraded three existing cranes as part of a US$60 million project to expand its Sand Island terminal in Honolulu harbour in preparation for the arrival of the first of four new, larger containerships starting next year.
The company has two Aloha class ships under construction at Philly shipyard in Philadelphia with deliveries scheduled for the third quarter of 2018 and first quarter of 2019 respectively. The 3,600 TEU vessels will be Matson's largest ships and the largest containerships ever built in the US.
Matson has also ordered two Kanaloa class vessels from General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego with deliveries scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2019 and second quarter of 2020 respectively. These ships will be combination container and roll-on/roll-off (con-ro) vessels built on a 3,500 TEU vessel platform 870 feet long and 114 feet wide, with enclosed garage space for up to 800 vehicles.
With the delivery of the Kanaloa class ships, along with its two new Aloha class ships, the company will have completed the renewal of its Hawaii fleet.
The container barge Columbia, to be renamed Mauna Loa, is now the company's largest barge in its fleet. At 360 feet long, with a beam of 100 feet and cargo carrying capacity of 12,600 tonnes or 500 TEU, it is 12 feet longer and 40 feet wider than the barge it replaces.
Built in 2012 by Gunderson Marine and classified as a deck cargo barge with 33,000 square feet of deck cargo space, the vessel's design enables swifter and more fuel-efficient transits. Its deck is unobstructed to allow greater flexibility in loading containers and over-dimensional cargo.
Matson's barge upgrade comes at a time of heavy investment in its Hawaii service. The company purchased three new gantry cranes and upgraded three existing cranes as part of a US$60 million project to expand its Sand Island terminal in Honolulu harbour in preparation for the arrival of the first of four new, larger containerships starting next year.
The company has two Aloha class ships under construction at Philly shipyard in Philadelphia with deliveries scheduled for the third quarter of 2018 and first quarter of 2019 respectively. The 3,600 TEU vessels will be Matson's largest ships and the largest containerships ever built in the US.
Matson has also ordered two Kanaloa class vessels from General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego with deliveries scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2019 and second quarter of 2020 respectively. These ships will be combination container and roll-on/roll-off (con-ro) vessels built on a 3,500 TEU vessel platform 870 feet long and 114 feet wide, with enclosed garage space for up to 800 vehicles.
With the delivery of the Kanaloa class ships, along with its two new Aloha class ships, the company will have completed the renewal of its Hawaii fleet.
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