Nearly everything Hawaii consumes moves by water. Here's the traffic behind the shelves.
Hawaii imports the overwhelming majority of its goods, and once containers land in Honolulu, inter-island barges fan them out to the neighbor islands.
Trans-Pacific liners bring cargo from the mainland; dedicated inter-island barge runs connect Honolulu to Hilo, Kahului, Nawiliwili and Kawaihae. Tugs, tankers and the passenger fleet share the same harbors.
The Honolulu–Hilo corridor shows vessels working both ports; the Hawaii region page aggregates the whole island chain, and the trans-Pacific approach appears on Seattle–Honolulu.
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