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REPORT FROM HORIZON LINES INC. - Horizon Lines, Inc. (OTCQB: HRZL), one of the nation's leading domestic ocean shipping companies, today announced it is deploying 400 new state-of-the-art refrigerated containers in the Hawaii tradelane. The new containers, which are designed with the latest technology to keep perishable commodities fresh and secure during transport, arrived at [...]
REPORT FROM GASBUDDIES.COM - May 14- Average retail gasoline prices in Honolulu have fallen 1.3 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $4.39/g yesterday. This compares with the national average that has fallen 3.3 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.73/g, according to gasoline price website HonoluluGasPrices.com. Including the change in gas prices [...]
The River, the ABC television paranormal series that is set in the Amazon (but really filmed in Hawaii), will be cancelled in 2012. Meanwhile, CBS earlier announced that Hawaii 5-0, also filmed in Hawaii, will be renewed for another season. Some other television shows filmed outside of Hawaii that fans may want to know about [...]
REPORT FROM THE HAWAII TOURISM AUTHORITY —The Hawai‘i Tourism Authority (HTA), the state’s tourism agency, will release a written fixed price request for proposals (RFP) from qualified applicants to provide Europe Leisure Tourism Destination Representation Services (Solicitation No.: HTA-RFP-12-05 (RFP)) that drive incremental visitation and revenue for Hawai‘i from its Europe leisure major market area [...]
The Omidyar Fellows program was launched today by the newly created Hawai'i Leadership Forum. Omidyar Fellows offers selected participants a rigorous, comprehensive leadership development curriculum designed to equip and inspire emerging leaders with the skills needed to affect positive, lasting change in Hawai'i. The inaugural class will include up to 15 leaders with diverse [...]
REPORT FROM THE HONOLULU LIQUOR COMMISSION – The Honolulu Liquor Commission (HLC) has created a new educational awareness brochure for sellers and servers of liquor in the City & County of Honolulu. The free brochure is now available in the HLC’s sixth floor lobby area at 711 Kapiolani Blvd and online at www.honolulu.gov/liq “We created [...]
REPORT FROM THE HAWAII HEALTH DEPARTMENT – The Hawai‘i State Department of Health (DOH) has agreed to settle its enforcement action against Koyo USA Corporation (Koyo) filed in September 2011. Koyo has agreed to pay the department a total of $2 million in two installments. The first $1 million payment was received by DOH on May 2, 2011. The [...]
REPORT FROM dck worldwide - dck worldwide announced that its joint venture partnership with Environmental Chemical Corporation (ECC), dck-ecc pacific guam, LLC (dck-ecc), has been awarded a $46.6 million design-build contract by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Hawaii (NAVFAC) for a fixed-price task order HC01 under a previously awarded multiple-award construction contract (N62742-10-D-1308) for constructing an operations complex with [...]
Honolulu, Hawaii — Japanese Positive Accessory Brand “Q-pot.” Ala Moana store launches new accessories collection “Japanese Shave Ice” on May 23, 2012. It is a part of “Q-pot. Summer Festival 2012,” which is a series of summer items to be launched consecutively from May through July 2012. Just in time for summer, Q-pot.’s irresistible collection [...]
REPORT FROM DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TOURISM - The weekly unemployment statistics update is now on our DBEDT Internet site at: http://hawaii.gov/dbedt/info/economic/data_reports/unemployment Shown below is a table containing this week's unemployment data – initial claims filed as compared to the same week last year. "Initial claims" initiate a determination of eligibility to begin a claimant's [...]
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