Hocotate Freight

Hocotate Freight is a long-haul, deep-space shipping company that Captain Olimar and Captain Louie works for. The company is based on Hocotate and was founded by the President of Hocotate Freight in his youth. The company seems to be a modest business as the only ships owned by the company before the events of Pikmin 2 are the S.S. Dolphin and the Hocotate Ship.

Before Pikmin 2
Hocotate Freight starts to have financial difficulties while Olimar was stuck on PNF-404 since Louie lost his cargo of Golden Pikpik Carrot, to a space bunny, forcing Hocotate Freight to sell the S.S. Dolphin, most of its possessions and take out an enormous loan of 10 100 Pokos.

1st Expedition on PNF-404
Olimar returns from his vacation with an item taken from PNF-404, the Hocotate Ship estimate the item to be worth 100 Pokos which is an astronomic value for Hocotatian standards. The President send Olimar and Louie back on PNF-404 with the Hocotate Ship to find enough treasures to cover the debt.

2nd Expedition on PNF-404
The debt is paid and Olimar returns to Hocotate, he leaves Louie behind and realize too late that his companion was left on PNF-404. The president organize a new expedition on the planet to retrieve Louie and gather even more treasure.

3rd Expedition on PNF-404
Between Pikmin 2 and Pikmin 3 the President manage to lose the profit made during the 2nd Expedition on PNF-404. Olimar and Louie are send a 3rd time on the planet to find treasure to cover the new debt, during the expedition the Hocotate Ship is wrecked by the Quaggled Mireclops and the two employees are forced to go back to Hocotate with the crew of the S.S. Drake which was also on an expedition on the planet.

Olimar's crash on the Unknown Planet
In Hey! Pikmin it is revealed that the company bought a new ship, the S.S. Dolphin II. At the beginning of the game, Olimar and his new ship crash on the Unknown Planet during one of his business trip.