Honolulu Freight Service Opens New Honolulu Headquarters and Celebrates 90 Years of Service Across Hawaii and U.S. West Coast
On March 19, we celebrated the opening of our new Hawaii headquarters at the former Love’s Bakery building at 911 Middle Street in the heart of Honolulu. We were pleased to welcome special guests, including Lieutenant Governor Sylvia Luke and Honolulu City Councilmember Tyler Dos Santos-Tam, for tours, refreshments and a sneak peek at our new operations center.
The 92,400-square-foot building and 3 acres of industrial property will allow HFS to streamline and upgrade operations. This includes expanding services in air and ocean interisland transportation, cold chain, door-to-door trucking, and short-term storage capacity.
The building, which was purchased by HFS in October 2022 following the closure of Love’s Bakery operations in March 2021, has undergone comprehensive renovations. It is now the most technologically advanced multimodal shipping facility of its kind in the state, offering ground, ocean and air freight services. The location will be fully operational later this spring, with more than 200 staff on-site, allowing HFS to consolidate two of our three Oahu facilities.
This year is particularly special to me because it marks 90 years of service for HFS under the third generation of ownership and management by the Beidleman family. HFS was founded in 1936 by my grandfather Paul Beidleman, who developed new systems to more efficiently transport cargo from the U.S. West Coast to Hawaii. We were honored to receive a Proclamation presented by Lt. Gov. Luke at the celebration recognizing our 90th year.
Freight forwarders are critical to the communities and businesses of Hawaii, and Honolulu Freight Service is proud to continue our deep legacy of service in the Pacific.
Thank you to everyone who joined us – we’ll have more to share soon.
Jim Beidleman
President and CEO
Honolulu Freight Service
