Matson inc Segments

Matson’s Hawaii service provides ocean freight services (lift-on/lift-off, roll-on/roll-off and conventional services) between the ports of Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, and the major ports in Hawaii on the islands of Oahu, Kauai, Maui and Hawaii. Matson is the largest carrier of ocean cargo between the U.S. West Coast and Hawaii. Westbound cargo carried by Matson to Hawaii includes dry containers of mixed commodities, refrigerated commodities, packaged foods, building materials, automobiles and household goods. Matson’s eastbound cargo from Hawaii includes automobiles, household goods, dry containers of mixed commodities, food and beverages, and livestock. The majority of Matson’s Hawaii service revenue is derived from the westbound carriage of containerized freight and automobiles.

Matson’s China service is part of an integrated Hawaii/Guam/China service. This service employs five of Matson’s containerships in a weekly service that carries cargo from Long Beach to Honolulu and then to Guam. The vessels continue to the ports of Xiamen, Ningbo and Shanghai in China, where they are loaded with cargo to be discharged in Long Beach. These vessels also carry cargo destined to and originating from the Guam and Micronesia services.

Matson’s Guam service provides weekly container and conventional freight services between the U.S. West Coast and Guam. Additionally, Matson provides freight services from Guam to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Matson’s Micronesia service provides container and conventional freight services between the U.S. West Coast and the islands of Kwajalein, Ebeye and Majuro in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the islands of Yap, Pohnpei, Chuuk and Kosrae in the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau. Cargo destined for these locations is transshipped through Guam.

In January 2013, Matson purchased the primary assets of a South Pacific ocean freight carrier based in Auckland, New Zealand. Matson named this new business “Matson South Pacific,” which currently transports freight between New Zealand, Australia and other South Pacific Islands including Nauru, Fiji, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, and the Solomon Islands.

Matson’s Vessel Information: Matson’s fleet includes 18 owned and three chartered vessels. The Matson-owned fleet represents an initial investment of approximately $1.3 billion and consists of: 11 containerships; three combination container/roll-on/roll-off ships; one roll-on/roll-off barge; and three container barges equipped with cranes. The majority of vessels in the Matson-owned fleet have been acquired with the assistance of withdrawals from a Capital Construction Fund (“CCF”) established under Section 607 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 (see Note 6 to the consolidated financial statements in Item 8 of Part II below for additional information about the CCF).

MatNav and Aker Philadelphia Shipyard, Inc. (“APSI”) entered into definitive agreements pursuant to which APSI will construct two new 3,600 twenty-foot equivalent unit (“TEU”) Aloha-class containerships with dual-fuel capable engines, which are expected to be delivered during the third and fourth quarters of 2018 (the “Shipbuilding Agreements”), at a cost of approximately $418.0 million. APSI’s obligations under the Shipbuilding Agreements are guaranteed by Aker Philadelphia Shipyard ASA.


Matson’s U.S. flagged vessels must meet specified seaworthiness standards established by U.S. Coast Guard rules and classification society requirements. These standards require that our ships undergo two dry-docking inspections within a five-year period. However, all of Matson’s U.S. flagged vessels are enrolled in the U.S. Coast Guard’s Underwater Survey in Lieu of Dry-docking (“UWILD”) program. The UWILD program allows eligible ships to meet their intermediate dry-docking requirement with a far less costly underwater inspection.

Matson Terminals provides container stevedoring, container equipment maintenance and other terminal services for Matson and another ocean carrier at a 105-acre marine terminal in Honolulu.

The terminal facility, which can accommodate three vessels at one time, is leased through from the State of Hawaii. Matson is currently in the process of renewing this lease. Matson Terminals owns and operates seven cranes at the terminal. Matson Terminals also provides container stevedoring and other terminal services to Matson and other vessel operators on the islands of Hawaii, Maui and Kauai. SSAT provides terminal and stevedoring services to various carriers at six terminal facilities on the U.S. West Coast and to MatNav at several of those facilities. Matson records its share of income in the joint venture in operating expenses within the Ocean Transportation segment due to the nature of SSAT’s operations.

Matson Logistics is a transportation intermediary that provides intermodal rail services, highway, warehousing and distribution, and other third-party logistics services for North American customers and international ocean carrier customers, including MatNav.

Matson Logistics also provides freight forwarding, consolidation, customs brokerage, purchase order management and non-vessel operating common carrier services. Matson Logistics Warehousing provides warehousing and distribution services in Northern and Southern California, and in Georgia. Through Matson Logistics Warehousing, Matson Logistics provides its customers with a full suite of rail, highway, warehousing and distribution services.

Matson Logistics is able to reduce transportation costs for its customers through volume purchases of rail, motor carrier and ocean transportation services, augmented by such services as shipment tracking and tracing, and single-vendor invoicing. Matson Logistics operates six customer service centers, including one in China (for supply chain services), and has sales offices throughout the United States.