Matson Navigation Co. and three unions avoided a widespread shipping strike yesterday after reaching a tentative agreement on a four-year contract for ship captains, officers, radio operators and engineers.

The agreement came 12 hours after one union, the American Radio Association, put up pickets in Seattle, stopping the loading of the MV Maui, which was scheduled to arrive in Honolulu next Saturday.

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Source: Rob Shikina, Honolulu Star-Bulletin