{"id":278572,"date":"2018-06-21T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=278572"},"modified":"2018-06-21T06:00:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T20:00:08","slug":"matson-supports-2018-micronesian-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/matson-supports-2018-micronesian-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Matson supports 2018 Micronesian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Organizing Committee of the 2018 Micronesian Games is honored to announce Matson\u2019s sponsorship at the gold level for the quadrennial event that  will be held in Yap from July 15 to 27.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn partnership with Triple B Forwarders and Palau Shipping, Matson is providing shipping support for all of the materials and supplies needed to host the Games,\u201d said Liyon Sulog, CEO and co-chair of the 2018 Micro Games Organizing Committee. <\/p>\n<p>The gold sponsorship is the highest level of support for the 2018 Micro Games that provides the event with a minimum of $75,000 in both cash and in-kind services.  Among the many benefits that Matson will receive as the gold sponsor includes the renaming of the Yap Sports Complex as the Matson Yap Sports Complex. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur entire Matson team, along with our partners, Triple B Forwarders and Palau Shipping, are excited to be the gold sponsors of the most important sporting event in our region,\u201d said Bernie Valencia, Matson vice president and general manager, Guam and Micronesia. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis sponsorship allows us to directly support the athletes from the communities we\u2019ve served for more than 20 years. We also stand behind the Micronesian Games\u2019 goal of promoting positive physical and mental well-being to the youth of Micronesia. Congratulations to the teams and coaches for their hard work. We look forward to cheering them on come July.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Islands throughout the Pacific Ocean have relied on the leading U.S. carrier Matson for the past 22 years to provide a vital lifeline and the movement of goods to people and companies throughout the region.  (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Organizing Committee of the 2018 Micronesian Games is honored to announce Matson\u2019s sponsorship at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21664,21665,783,20126],"class_list":["post-278572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-bernie-valencia","tag-liyon-sulog","tag-micronesian-games","tag-yap-sports-complex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278572","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=278572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}