Today’s Honolulu Star Bulletin reported: “The Alakai went home yesterday looking for work.”
Maybe it was a slip, but it was accurate. The Superferry’s home is, and always has been somewhere else. It was never a homegrown interisland transportation system to ship pineapples or allow grandma on Maui to visit her grandkids on O’ahu. It was always about powerful outside interests using Hawai’i to further their business plans and spread the risk to tax payers. That’s why the business plan for the Superferry never made sense, and why the company was so eager to pack up and ship out once it had gotten everything it needed from Hawai’i and a convenient out. Where the Superferry ends up will reveal a lot about its real business plans.
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