Horizon to hike fuel surcharge
HONOLULU (AP) — Horizon Lines Inc., the state’s second largest ocean carrier, said it will hike its fuel surcharge for shipments to and from the Mainland by 4.5 percentage points to a record 42.75 percent. The increase, effective Aug. 17, comes just one month after the company’s last surcharge hike that took effect July 14. Horizon has added 14.25 percentage points to the surcharge since January. Until Friday, however, the increases had been spaced about three months apart. In a letter to customers, Horizon said an ongoing escalation of fuel costs prompted the latest move. ‘‘Horizon Lines understands that this adjustment impacts your cost of doing business, just as these fuel cost increases have affected our cost of providing service,’’ the company said in the letter. Kelvin Shigemura, vice president of local produce supplier Armstrong Produce Ltd., said the relatively rapid succession of Horizon’s surcharge was not unexpected, in part because airlines have been increasing th
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CrossFiber official to speak to group
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Big Island hospital to cut 12% of staff
HILO — North Hawaii Community Hospital is laying off 59 employees, or more than 12 percent of its work force of about 470.
The Big Island private hospital is trying to shrink a projected $7 million budget deficit.
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