Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire
Thursday, December 19, 1996
Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire
Thursday, December 19, 1996
A subsidiary of defense giant Lockheed Martin Corp. plans to use Hawaii as the base of its expansion into the Pacific and Asia region, but the company can't say yet what that will mean for local jobs. Lockheed Martin unit
plans base in HawaiiAdvanced Environmental Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary formed in June, today said it planned to expand into the region, focusing first on trying to get the roughly $400 million federal contract for cleanup of Kahoolawe.
The Navy has said it plans to award that ordinance-removal contract between July and September of next year.
How many people AES employs locally will depend partly on whether the company gets that contract, said AES spokeswoman Dianne Knippel.
But the company also will be seeking other ordinance-disposal jobs at sites throughout Asia and the Pacific, she said. Those jobs would be partly managed from Hawaii.
Lockheed Martin currently employs 200 to 220 people in Hawaii in various other subsidiaries. It runs the telecommunications and navigations systems at Honolulu Airport, operates the Kauai missile testing range and has two-to-three worker offices on several islands to help monitor its orbiting satellites.
Passenger traffic at Hawaiian Airlines declined slightly in November but the local airline's year-to-date traffic continues to show a modest gain. Hawaiian Air’s traffic
higher for year-to-dateHawaiian said it carried a total of 406,818 passengers last month, a 4.1 percent decrease from November 1995's 424,314.
The airline, which operates flights to the neighbor islands and the West Coast, said its overall revenue passenger miles - which is the combined amount flown by paying customers - dropped 6 percent in November to 297.7 million from the year-earlier month's 316.8 million.
Hawaiian said that its cargo business had a healthy November. The company said its cargo ton miles - a measure of cargo volume - was up 26.3 percent to 4.97 million last month from 3.94 million in the year-earlier period.
For the first 11 months of 1996, Hawaiian said it has carried 4.73 million passengers, a 4.7 percent rise from the year-earlier period, while its revenue passenger miles is up 7 percent to 3.5 million.
Cargo ton miles for the first 11 months, meanwhile, is up 23.6 percent from last year to 45.9 million.
Hawaiian Electric Co. has awarded $59,000 to the owners of the $175 million First Hawaiian Center under an energy conservation program sponsored by the electric utility. First Hawaiian honored
for conservation effortHeco, which was to present the award to First Hawaiian Bank executives this morning, said the newly completed building is one of the first large projects to earn a cash incentive under Heco's commercial and industrial energy efficiency program.
The utility cited the center's state-of-the-art lighting system and its energy efficient air conditioning equipment and motors.
Since June, Heco has awarded about $600,000 in cash incentives to businesses under its energy efficiency program.