New York Times - March 21, 2009We’re going to have to go out and find other employment for Alakai,” said the president of Hawai`i Superferry, Thomas B. Fargo, a retired Navy admiral who once commanded American forces in the Pacific. “Certainly the military may very well want to lease this particular ship....”A shipbuilding analyst in Florida, Tim Colton, said the company’s owner and chairman, John F. Lehman, a former Navy secretary, was well positioned to lease the Alakai and a just-finished sister ship to the Navy....State Representative Hermina M. Morita, a Democrat and chairwoman of the Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection, said she never thought either ferry would be profitable.“You look at the players involved,” Ms. Morita said. “You have to question their motives....”Read The Rest Here
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