Matson Navigation Company has appointed Alexander Bolton, vice president and area manager-Hawaii, to direct and supervise the company's $15-million project to consolidate its Honolulu terminal facilities at Sand Island, M.S. Wasacz, executive vice president, announced.
Mr. Bolton will devote full time to the tasks of completing the new 85-acre terminal, moving the four huge shoreside cranes and other equipment from Diamond Head Terminal and installing them at the new site, and coordinating operations throughout the transition period.
Relieving him as area manager-Hawaii will be Barrick L. Prince, vice president, who has been Matson's area manager in northern California. Richard S. Bliss, formerly executive vice president of the subsidiary Matson Terminals, Inc., will succeed Mr. Prince as vice president and area manager-northern California.