Matson to start serving Christmas Island

Honolulu-based ocean cargo transportation firm Matson Inc. plans to start serving one of the most remote islands in the Pacific next week.

The company announced a new scheduled service every two months to Christmas Island in the Republic of Kiribati starting Sept. 25.

The new service to the island also known as Kiritimati will be an extension of Matson’s South Pacific Express serv­ice, which is based in New Zealand and serves Samoa, American Samoa, Tahiti, the Cook Islands, Tonga, Niue and Fiji.

Dojin Co. Ltd., a container shipping agency on Christmas Island, will serve as Matson’s exclusive agent.

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