Matson Integrated Logistics has joined the SmartWay Transport Partnership, a voluntary collaboration between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the freight industry designed to increase energy efficiency while significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.

MIL has also earned the EPA's highest score for fuel efficiency and environmental performance. MIL is a unit of Matson Navigation Co., which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Honolulu-based Alexander & Baldwin Inc.

MIL qualified for the program because it moves 70 percent of its freight volume with SmartWay rail and truck carriers. In addition, the majority of that volume was moved by intermodal rail, with all of the rail carriers utilized being SmartWay partners.

Launched in February 2004, the SmartWay Transport Partnership aims to achieve fuel savings of up to 150 million barrels of fuel per year. The Partnership currently has more than 450 partners.