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Crews working the water and shorelines have collected about 25,000 dead fish and other animals from surrounding waters since the spill was discovered Sept. 9, officials said.The chief executive of the transit company responsible for spilling 1,400 tons of molasses in Hawaii waters says the company will fully pay for cleanup and other costs without passing them on to taxpayers or customers.
Matson Navigation Co. CEO Matt Cox said Monday that he is sorry for the spill, and the company won’t ship molasses until it’s confident a similar spill will not occur.
The spill happened in Honolulu Harbor in an industrial area west of downtown, where Matson loads molasses and other goods for shipping, about 5 miles west of Waikiki. Some 233,000 gallons of molasses spilled from the leaky pipe as the sugary substance was moved from storage tanks to ships sailing to California. Company and state officials say the leak happened when molasses seeped into a section of pipe that was supposed to be sealed off.
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Chinese companies signed agreements with U.S. agricultural exporters on Monday to buy 4.83 million tons of U.S. soybeans valued at about $2.8 billion.
At a ceremony hosted by the U.S. Soybean Export Council, officials from Chinese companies including COFCO, Sinograin, and Chinatex signed 13 separate agreements with representatives from Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, Columbia Grain and others.
The soybeans will be shipped in the current marketing year, which began on Sept. 1, and likely before the next South American crop begins flooding the market in March, said a trader at the event.
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