January 9, 2017<\/p>\n
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Aloha HFS Customer:<\/p>\n
The State of Hawaii Department of Transportation, Harbors Division will be implementing wharfage fee increases over the next two years, with the next increase of 17% taking effect on February 1, 2017.\u00a0 Part of the State\u2019s financing plan for its multi-year harbors modernization program, this increase is scheduled to be followed by an increase of 15% effective October 1, 2017, and a third increase of 15% effective July 1, 2018.<\/p>\n
While rates vary depending on equipment size, commodity and destination, for the majority of our customers the February 2017 change will result in increases of approximately $15 – $30 per container on domestic Honolulu freight and $32 – $64 on domestic Neighbor Island freight.<\/p>\n
In addition, the State of Hawaii has announced that it will introduce a new Facilities Security Charge of $15 per container for Oahu and $22.50 per container for Neighbor Island shipments effective February 1, 2017.\u00a0 This charge is scheduled to increase to $17.25 per container for Oahu and $25.87 per container for Neighbor Island shipments effective October 1, 2017; and to $19.84 per container for Oahu and $29.76 per container for Neighbor Island shipments effective July 1, 2018.<\/p>\n
Honolulu Freight Service will adjust our pricing to reflect these increases effective with the February 5, 2017 sailing:
\nLCL Dry<\/u>
\n$0.03 per cube to Oahu
\n$0.07 per cube to Neighbor Islands<\/p>\n
Specific rate-by-commodity information is available in the State\u2019s notice: \u00a0<\/a>State of Hawaii Notice<\/a><\/p>\n Should you require further information, please contact your local Account Manager or Customer Service Representative.<\/p>\n Mahalo for shipping via HFS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 9, 2017 Aloha HFS Customer: The State of Hawaii Department of Transportation, Harbors Division will be implementing wharfage fee increases over the next two years, with the next increase of 17% taking effect on February 1, 2017.\u00a0 Part of the State\u2019s financing plan for its multi-year harbors modernization program, this increase is scheduled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/honolulufreightservice.com\/stage3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/honolulufreightservice.com\/stage3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/honolulufreightservice.com\/stage3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honolulufreightservice.com\/stage3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honolulufreightservice.com\/stage3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/honolulufreightservice.com\/stage3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3260,"href":"https:\/\/honolulufreightservice.com\/stage3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions\/3260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/honolulufreightservice.com\/stage3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honolulufreightservice.com\/stage3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honolulufreightservice.com\/stage3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}