The Horizon Enterprise arrived on the West Coast, carrying 600 new refrigerated containers as part of Pasha Hawaii’s container replenishment program.
The Honolulu, HI-based carrier will take on 600 new 40-foot high cube refrigerated containers and 400 new 45-foot dry containers in 2018. Pasha Hawaii will cycle out older equipment, reducing the average age of refrigerated container fleet by 2.7 years and 45-foot equipment fleet by 2.4 years.
The newly built containers arrived on the Horizon Enterprise as she returned from her regularly scheduled drydock; the vessel will re-enter the CHX service this week. The Horizon Enterprise vessel drydock included modifications that will increase the vessel’s capacity for the high-demand 45-foot equipment by 80 slots per sailing, similar to the updates made to the Horizon Pacific last year.
Installation of additional reefer plugs on the M/V Marjorie C has been completed as well, bringing the total from 150 to 220 on the ConRo vessel.