Aloha Air Cargo Shuts Down

"Aloha Airlines abruptly shut down its cargo operations yesterday, leaving 85 percent of the state's air cargo in limbo and putting at least 400 employees out of work.

The company's cargo unit delivers such perishable goods as bread and bakery products, dairy products, fresh produce, fresh fish, newspapers and pharmaceutical supplies, as well as large items. All cargo flights were canceled last night........Love's Bakery, which has shipped up to 36,000 pounds of goods per day on Aloha since 1985, hustled to get 22,000 pounds to the neighbor isles today using freight forwarder Surefire Consulting LLC, which flew two planes to Kauai and the Big Island via the mainland.

"We were given absolutely no notification," said Mike Walters, Love's president."

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