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The Maui 10
Who’s the county’s most powerful player?

by By Anthony Pignataro

February 01, 2007

RANK   PREVIOUS   COMPANY



  

1           

1           Monsanto

Hawai`i

   2         

  2          

Weinberg Foundation

   3         

  6           Maui Land & Pineapple Co.



   4         

  3          

Dowling Co.

   5         

  4          

Maui Electric Co.

   6         

  5          

Makena Resort

   7         

  7          

Tesoro Hawai`i

   8           10          Alexander & Baldwin



   9       

   

8           Wailuku

Water Co.

  10          

9           Hawaiian

Telcom









HOME ON THE BAY



And you fools thought Honolua Bay was only for surfers, snorkelers

and those guys who allegedly used to charge rubes money to use the

water until the Maui PD busted them. “ML&P submits plans for

Honolua,” notes the Jan. 25, 2007 Maui News.

And what plans: 40 homes, 18-hole golf course mostly, though Maui Land

is also throwing in some vaguely worded extras like “cultural park,”

“surf park” and “marine informational signs.” Neither The Maui News piece nor the one in the same day’s Honolulu Advertiser

had any word on the project’s eventual cost, projected home sizes

(Honolua Ridge home lots were between three and 30 acres) or potential

to impact one of the best surf spots in the world, but they did make

clear construction “is years away” even if Maui Land gets all its

permits approved. Maui Land may be an immensely powerful corporation

that can rely on generally sympathetic news coverage, but apparently

even they can’t get the county Planning Department to move quickly.





CHARGE THIS!



Looks like we got us a fuel surcharge war going on! Hot damn! The bloodletting started the afternoon of Jan. 22, 2007, when Pacific Business News posted

a story on its website about A&B’s Matson Navigation Company’s

announcement that on Jan. 28 the shipper would drop its fuel surcharge

from 18.75 percent to just 17.5 percent. A little over 24 hours later,

Horizon Lines followed suit and lowered its fuel surcharge to 17. 5

percent—exactly like Matson had just done! They copied them! Sure, a

Horizon exec later said the cost cutting came as a result of “the

continued downward trend in fuel costs,” but that doesn’t change the

fact that Matson was first and Horizon totally came in second. MTW