The request from the grand jury, which is typically convened to considerwhether to file criminal charges, follows requests for information from the Hawaii Department ofHealth, the State of Hawaii Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the US EnvironmentalProtection Agency, the company told securities regulators.
Matson, a Honolulu-based liner operator, has been thetarget of state and federal investigations since early September, when the leak was discovered from a pipeline used to load bulkmolasses shipments on the company’s vessels.
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