[Micronesia

Trade Winds

Air Marshalls expands AIR Marshall Islands, which took over a DC-8 jet in January, is now looking for a second aircraft with which to expand its fleet. The preference is for a British

Aerospace BA-146 four-engine jet,

which seats about 100 passengers. The plan is for the aircraft to be used on the Majuro-Tarawa-Nadi service, on which Air Marshall Islands now employs a 48-

seater Hawker-Siddley 748 turbo-prop.

Hawaiian gets new routes HAWAIIAN Airlines has obtained per mission to fly two new routes between Japan and the Northern Marianas. The Honolulu-based carrier will fly between Fukuoka and Nagoya in Japan to Saipan and Guam. Hawaiian has been operating in Guam since 1987 but this will be its first service into Saipan.

Seaweed project study MAJURO’S College of Micronesia is to

study the feasibility of growing seaweed

in the lagoons around the Marshall Is lands. Seaweed aquaculture is seen as a

profitable export industry.

Of the seaweed species, Eucheuma is grown commercially in the Federated States of Micronesia and Kiribati.