The Port of Anchorage sits in a strategic location for global commerce, fuel and cargo distribution, and military response. It is the only intermodal deep-water port in Alaska. We are fully operational year round, and located only a few miles away from one of the busiest cargo airports in the United States.

While the port pursues an aggressive expansion and redevelopment project, the current facility welcomes a variety of ships from fuel tankers to military cargo carriers, container ships to cruise ships. The port currently has four ship berths and a published draft depth of -35 ft mean lower low water (MLLW) which easily accommodates ships requiring 30 feet of draft.

Our facilities include:

• Three General Cargo Terminals, 2,109 ft. of dock face, container, roll on\roll off, bulk cement and break bulk capabilities
• Two Bulk Petroleum Product Terminals with 600 feet each of berthing space with four 2,000-bbl./hr.-product pipelines each
• Loose cement offloading capability via pneumatic pump and on site storage silos
• Intermodal connections via rail, road and air
• Operating depth at all facilities: dredged to -35 feet MLLW
• Maximum vessel tonnage: 60,000 DWT
• Maximum length and breadth: No limit
• On-dock Transit Shed with 27,000 square foot heated storage/office space
• Rail mounted, electric Container Cranes: (2) 30 ton and (1) 40 ton
• Portable Cranes to 150 tons available
• Forklifts to 30 tons available
• Bulk Petroleum Valve Yard capable of accommodating multiple simultaneous marine/shore and/or inter-user shore side transfers.

The port occupies 177 acres with 81 acres leased to long term users and 31 acres used as transient storage for cargo including fuel tanks and cements silos. These same areas are occasionally designated for use by the Department of Defense to stage military deployments.

Foreign Trade Zone

The Municipality is a grantee of the Anchorage Foreign Trade Zone 160, the only activated FTZ in the State of Alaska. Anchorage Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) No. 160, the only activated FTZ in the State of Alaska.

The Port of Anchorage is the Municipal department responsible for the administration of the FTZ program in Anchorage. At the present time FTZ No. 160 is comprised of seven sites totaling some 1,000 acres located at the Port of Anchorage, Anchorage International Airport and at five private sites throughout the Municipality.

An application for subzone status for the Tesoro Petroleum refinery in Kenai was approved by the United States Department of Commerce, Foreign Trade Zones Board in May 2001.

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