Estes Express Lines is deploying nearly $56 million into terminals, equipment and capacity serving Mexico, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
Amazon has added a third freighter flight to Honolulu, paving the way for next-day parcel delivery and is carrying pineapples back to the U.S. mainland.
New legislation allows five-year Jones Act exemptions for foreign companies to operate their ships within America’s coastal trades.
Transair, a small all-cargo operator in Hawaii, is preparing to restart business after a serious accident in 2021 and a failed FAA attempt to pull its operating certificate.
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The Department of Labor has clawed back hundreds of thousands of dollars in back pay owed by Transair, a Hawaiian cargo airline that is no longer flying.
Aloha Air Cargo has decided to close its Los Angeles-Honolulu lane, effective June 1, because of weak demand, FreightWaves has learned. The route is marketed by Aloha, which signs customers and accepts bookings, but sister airline Northern Air Cargo flies a Boeing 767 for Aloha on a charter basis. Aloha operates the route five days […]
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A compilation of the past week in social media images includes a Hawaiian blizzard, a South America shaky plane landing and Kentucky tornadoes.
The National Weather Service says parts of Hawaii could see potentially “catastrophic flooding” as heavy rains continue (video forecast included).
Lives and holiday travel were heavily impacted by these historic Thanksgiving Day storms.
A cargo jet made an emergency landing in the ocean off Oahu this past summer. Investigators are now going to pull the wreckage off the ocean floor.
Truck driving in Hawaii might sound like paradise. Locals say they face a range of challenges unique to island living.
A Boeing 737 cargo jet went down in the water off Hawaii Friday morning.
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Amazon Air is expanding in Hawaii to keep up with Amazon’s fulfillment center push.
While the storm is expected to weaken as it passes over the islands, Young Brothers pulls its interisland barges into calmer waters for the weekend.
Even before Hawaii imposed COVID-19 travel restrictions earlier this year, Young Brothers lost money and last year sought a rate increase valued at $13 million from state regulators.
Young Brothers will curtail service without rapid $25 million infusion of CARES Act funding from state regulators.
The Honolulu-based carrier has used some passenger airplanes to transport face masks from China, as well as food and medical supplies between islands.
