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shipping line

Matson, Inc.

#30 container line by published capacity

Headquarters: Honolulu
Founded: 1882
Employees: —

Official website

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

Published by the industry · Alphaliner Top 100 (via Wikipedia) · as of 2026-04-30

Container capacity

69,227 TEU

Published capacity · Alphaliner Top 100 (via Wikipedia) · as of 2026-04-30

Gross tonnage on record

25,644

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

This company reports 28 ships while this registry holds individual records for 4. That gap is coverage, not a contradiction: open reference data documents a minority of the world fleet ship by ship. The list below is what can be named and verified.

In brief

What Matson, Inc. is

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Matson, Inc., is an American ocean transportation and logistics company headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Founded in 1882, Matson, Inc.'s subsidiary Matson Navigation Company provides ocean shipping services across the Pacific to Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, Micronesia, the Pacific islands, China, and Japan.

Quoted from Matson, Inc. on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: shipping line
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United States
Headquarters: Honolulu
Formed in: —
Founded: 1882
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Listed on: New York Stock Exchange
Ticker: —
ISIN: US57686G1058
Legal Entity Identifier: 549300OI5H3Y0I9I4I12
Head office coordinates: 21.3047, -157.8572

Ships on record here: 4
Vessel types operated: 3
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 81.5 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1927
Newest vessel on record: 1974
Largest vessel by tonnage: 25,644
Average tonnage: 25,644
Market share: 0.2%
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 4 vessels this registry attributes to Matson, Inc.. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation1

Bethlehem Steel1

Kaiser Company, Inc. (Vancouver, Wash.)1

William Cramp & Sons1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	4
2018	—	4
2019	—	4
2020	—	4
2021	—	4
2022	—	4
2023	—	4
2024	—	4
2025	—	4
2026	—	4

Vessel records

Ships on record

4 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Matson Producer	7366312	Container ship	United States	1974	25,644	—	219.6 m	Bethlehem Steel
SS Lurline	5423790	Cruise ship	United States	1932	—	—	192.6 m	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
SS Malolo	5376997	Cruise ship	—	1927	—	—	177.5 m	William Cramp & Sons
USNS Marine Carp	5224754	Naval / patrol	United States	1945	—	—	159.4 m	Kaiser Company, Inc. (Vancouver, Wash.)

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Matson, Inc. compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 4 vessels attributed to it here, Matson, Inc. is the 213th largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

United States is the country of registration for 144 commercial operators in this directory, among which Matson, Inc. ranks 19th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 435 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in United States.

Founded in 1882, Matson, Inc. is 144 years old. This directory holds 39 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.