{"id":23888,"date":"2012-07-13T06:38:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T06:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=23888"},"modified":"2012-07-13T06:38:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T06:38:34","slug":"matson-lowers-fuel-surcharge-for-nmi-guam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/matson-lowers-fuel-surcharge-for-nmi-guam\/","title":{"rendered":"Matson lowers fuel surcharge for NMI, Guam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As a result of recent declines in bunker fuel prices, Matson Navigation Co. Inc. is decreasing its bunker fuel surcharges by 3 percentage points for its Hawaii, Guam, CNMI, and Micronesia services, according to a company statement issued yesterday.<\/div>\n<p>Effective July 15, 2012, the drop lowers the charge from 42 percent to 39 percent for its Hawaii service, and from 38.5 percent to 35.5 percent for its Guam\/CNMI and Micronesia services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased to be able to make this second consecutive downward adjustment to our fuel surcharge, which for most customers represents a reduction in shipping costs ranging from $70 to $120 per container,&#8221; said Dave Hoppes, senior vice president, in an email to customers.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the company adjusted its fuel surcharge was on June 17, 2012, when it lowered the rate by 3.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>It is the fifth consecutive decrease for the Guam, CNMI, and Micronesia services, with the company saying no upward change was necessary earlier in the year due to &#8220;significant increases in freight volume,&#8221; following the departure of a competitor late last year.<\/p>\n<p>The increase of 5 percentage points for the Hawaii service on Feb. 26, 2012, was proceeded by three consecutive decreases in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Matson says it is continuing to monitor fuel costs and will adjust the surcharge accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>By Press Release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of recent declines in bunker fuel prices, Matson Navigation Co. Inc. is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,481,51,482],"class_list":["post-23888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-effective-july","tag-guam","tag-matson-navigation-co"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}