Transportation geography is concerned with with movement of people and goods. In this course on Honolulu, we'll consider two domains:
Within each of those we should consider the:
The connections are by sea and by air.
Shipping brings essentially all of the goods that we use and consume to Honolulu. Matson and Horizon Lines (nee SeaLand and CSX).
Harbor(s). Honolulu and Barber's Point. Kinds and amounts of Cargo. SDB Tables. Number of ships, barges, tons through each. (look at State DOT Harbors Division Ship Schedule Web page )
Shippers.
Jones Act
Issue: dependence on shippers
2002: Reports that CSX Lines is looking for a buyer circulated. (http://starbulletin.com/2002/03/26/business/story1.html). According to the story, Tote (Totem Ocean), owned by privately held Saltchuk Resources, who also owns YB and HT&B is one of the potential buyers. Matson and Crowley Maritime Corp. are others.
December 2002 news reports announced that the Carlyle Group had agreed to purchased a majority stake (80%) in CSX Lines for $300,000,000 (http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021217/fltu015_1.html), (http://starbulletin.com/2002/12/18/business/story2.html). The story indicates that CSX is the US's largest ocean shipping company, with 17 US-flagged vessels, 22,000 containers, 1,600 employees, and servicing six routes between the US mainland and Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.
In March of 2003 the local NPR affiliate reported that the sale had gone through. The new name, Horizon Lines, LLC would be phased-in.
The yahoo story indicates that the Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm, has $13.9 billion under management and since 1987 has returned 36%. They employ 510 people in 21 offices in 11 countries. (see www.carlyle.com).
Stories indicate that the west coast dock strikes in the fall of 2002 may have scuttled the deal. Consider that Pres Geo W Bush's father, Bush 41, works for/with Carlyle Group, and that Bush 43 took an active interest in the strike settlement. This smacks of a conflict of interests. Was all of this above boards? Some people do not think so (eg http://linkthing.com/screed/carlyle_group_cluster.html).
2004 July 8: Carlyle Group sold Horizon Lines to Castle Harlan. (Characterized Horizon as "the nation's largest ocean transporation company, with 16 vessels" ... "US mainland, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico" for $650 million. (Castle Harlan is another private equity limited partnership investment entity which boasts 30% compound return (see www.castleharlan.com). )
That is a very nice return on investment.
Carlyle Group are the same folks who bought Verizon and re-named it "Hawaiian Telcom". Daniel F. Akerson, is Managing Director of the Carlyle Group and Chairman of the Board of Hawaiian Telcom, and three of the eight HT directors are from the Carlyle Group (www.hawaiiantel.com on 14 Nov 2007).
From their website "Presently, there are twelve scheduled departures weekly from Honolulu serving the ports of Hilo and Kawaihae on the Island of Hawaii, Kahului on Maui, Kaunakakai on Molokai, Kaumalapau on Lanai, and Nawiliwili on Kauai" (www.htbyb.com/Tarriff_Information/overview on 20020624).
Young Brothers does the interisland shipping. Hawaiian Tug and Barge does the harbor support and charter towing. YB was started WHEN WHO. HTB was spun off to separate shipping from harbor support (WHEN???). Both Young Brothers and Hawaiian Tug and Barge were both subsidiaries of Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc (FROM WHEN) until 1999.
Both Hawaiian Tug and Barge and Young Brothers were bought by SaltChuk Resources Inc. "As of November 10, 1999, title and stock of Hawaiian Tug and Barge and Young Brothers were officially transferred to Saltchuk Resources, Inc. of Seattle. Saltchuk formed a new corporate entity, Moana Pa`akai, Inc., to take over the assets of HTB, and HTB and YB are now two separate companies." (http://www.hei.com/hoahana/1999.winter/2.html)
Now, (20020624) the YB website indicates that the companies are still close sisters. It shows Moana Pa'akai, Inc. dba Hawaiian Tug & Barge as the corporate concern but does not mention SaltChuck Resources.
SaltChuk has been characterized as the premier maritime company of the Northwest. (On the Foss Environmental, one of its subsidiaries, web site (www.fossenv.com/about/history.html on 20020624).
SaltChuk Resources Inc has been noted as a heavy softmoney contributor in Washington state. For example, it's co-chairman Stanley Barer contributed $25,000 to Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee on 12/6/2001 and $5,000 to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on 12/10/2001 (according to http://www.opensecrets.org/parties/asp/softcomp2.asp?state=WA&txtName=Saltchuk+Resources&txtCycle=2002). Another web site had about $50 spread across both Democrats and Republicans in the 2001-2002 election cycle.
From the website http://www.htbyb.com/htb/about_us/htb_about_us.asp
comes:
I need a map of population here. Who commutes?
Workers. Students. Shoppers?
A lot has been said and written; try a search in google for:
'Honolulu transit plan bus light rail' and see what you get.
Pritchett's
Light Rail cartoon
BRT Corridor (with maps)
IOS ,
In-Town ,
Regional
The Bus (check all of those
routes!)
Transporation
-DOT divisions = Harbors, Airports, Roads
-history of H1, complexity of dropping this into existing city, current re-construction 9 projects $58million
-Some Numbers
-1987-1996 vehicles up 27,034 (? %) drivers up 52,258 (11.3%)
-1996 1.2 motor vehicles/driver
-1998 444 vehicles/mile of paved street on Oahu (1350 paved miles)
-24 hr traffic volume on H1 at Kapalama canal 223,000 vehicles (counting both ways)
vehicle miles/yr doubled 1970-1996 2,668,700,000 to 5,258,900,000
-Harbors
-Nuuanu Stream, 1825 sunken hull at foot of Nuuanu, 1827 Robinson & Co wharf at Pakaka Pt.
-Today 98% of Hawaii's consumer goods, over 11.5 million tons of cargo/yr, >2 dozen ships & barges per
day, ~2000 jobs.
-Future: 5% growth / year
-Airports
Passengers using Honolulu International Airport
see also http://www.state.hi.us/dot/airports/publications/suma01.pdf
for recent data on flows through the airport
John Rodgers Airport 1927;
1935 Pan American commercial flights using seaplanes,
tourists made the 16 hour flight
It was renamed Honolulu Airport in 1947.
The reef runway completed in 1977.
Today, Young Brothers and Hawaiian Tug & Barge's 350 employees are
happy to assist you in transporting your goods throughout Hawaii.
People
...Tourists
...Commuters
DOT divisions
Year #Passengers tons-of-cargo tons-of-mail
1999 22,275,743 414,511 104,018
1998 23,458,853
1997 23,954,711
1996 24,464,866
1995 23,232,778
