Anchorage and feds settle port lawsuit, securing $180M for modernization project

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By Zachariah Hughes

The Municipality of Anchorage and federal government are settling a protracted lawsuit over botched construction at the Don Young Port of Alaska two decades ago.

“This is a massive victory,” Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance said Tuesday during a press conference announcing the settlement.

The two parties agreed on a $180 million payment from the federal government to the municipality.

“It’s the largest settlement in the municipality’s history. Every single dollar of this funding will go directly toward construction costs for the Port of Alaska Modernization Program,” LaFrance said.

The legal dispute between the city and the U.S. Maritime Administration, typically referred to as MARAD, goes back to 2014. The municipality sued the agency over defective work and inadequate oversight for construction undertaken in 2003 by subcontractors to upgrade the port facility.

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