BUSINESS BRIEFS
More passengers for go! in March
Advertiser Staff and News Services
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Interisland carrier go! said its passenger count increased by more than 9,400 in March.
The company said it flew a total of 64,093 passengers last month, compared with 54,604 in the year-earlier period.
The airline's planes were 66.6 percent full in March, down slightly from the year-earlier month's 67.8 percent.
"We continue to be encouraged by the strong growth in passenger numbers year over year in spite of the present difficult economic climate and a decline in the number of visitors to Hawai'i," said Jonathan Ornstein, CEO of Mesa Air Group, which owns the local carrier.
HAWAI'I GAS PRICE HOLDS AT $2.43
The average price of a gallon of gasoline statewide was unchanged this week at $2.43, AAA Hawaii reported.In Honolulu, the average was $2.36 a gallon, up 1 cent from last week.
In Hilo, the average was $2.49 a gallon, down 3 cents from a week ago.
The average price in Wailuku of $2.63 a gallon was 2 cents higher than last week.
PROSERVICE ADDS ACCOUNTING OPTION
ProService Hawaii, the state's largest human resources administration firm, has launched a division that provides accounting services to businesses.ProAccounting provides a range of services to businesses, from administrative tasks to managing their entire accounting process, the company said.
"ProAccounting adds a fully scalable accounting component to the best-in-class small-business support model ProService has developed in Hawai'i," said ProAccounting director Dennis O'Connell.
$1.1M CONTRACT FOR BUOY WORK
Ocean Power Technologies Inc. has received $1.1 million to upgrade and do more testing on a buoy off Windward O'ahu that generates power using sea motion.The contract is being financed by the Navy, through ocean engineering firm Sound Sea & Sea Technology of Edmonds, Wash.
One of the Pennington, N.J.-based PowerBuoy systems was deployed in October about a mile off Marine Corps Base Hawaii in 100 feet of water.
CELLULAR BIOENGINEERING GEL SELLING
Honolulu-based Cellular Bioengineering Inc. said a Canadian power company has reordered a gel developed to help in remediation of radiological and nuclear contamination.The company's CBI Polymers division will ship a bulk order to Ontario Power Generation, which will use it to reduce contamination at nuclear power plants. Development of the product, DeconGel, was funded by the Hawaii Technology Development Venture and the Office of Naval Research, with additional funding from other defense groups.
