Tobolar Copra Processing Authority Archives - The Marshall Islands Journal

Copra set to dip in 2025

By Journal on August 22, 2025 Ailinglaplap, Arno, Giff Johnson, Maloelap, Marshall Islands Shipping Corporatioon, Mili, MV Aelonlaplap, Namu, RMI copra, Tobolar Copra Processing Authority Feature Articles

GIFF JOHNSON It would take a Herculean effort by the Marshall Islands Shipping Corporation and copra makers to hit the 7,000 ton mark by the end of the fiscal year September 30. Four weak months of copra deliveries to the Tobolar Copra Processing Authority in Majuro put the nine-month total tonnage at 4,480 tons, according […]

RMI’s bumper copra year

By Journal on October 13, 2022 Ailinglaplap, Arno, copra tonnage statistics, Giff Johnson, Maloelap, Mili, Tobolar Copra Processing Authority, US Trust Territory government, Wotje News Archive

GIFF JOHNSON From the time American administrators of the US Trust Territory government started keeping copra tonnage statistics in 1951, it took 20 years for copra production to break the 7,000-ton mark in one year. That was 1970, when the “stars aligned” with copra making and shipping combining to produce the first-ever banner year for […]