MATX

Matson, Inc.

A Honolulu-based ocean shipping and logistics company that carries cargo between the U.S. West Coast and Hawaii, Alaska, and Guam, moving everything from groceries to cars and construction supplies. It began in 1882 when Swedish-born sea captain William Matson sailed his three-masted schooner, the Emma Claudina, into Hilo Bay to haul plantation supplies to Hawaii and return with sugar. The ship was named after the daughter of sugar tycoon Claus Spreckels, whose family Matson had captained a yacht for — a connection that launched one of the Pacific's oldest shipping lines.