Panel recommends renaming port after Don Young and reverting to ‘of Anchorage’ 

By Jeremy Hsieh
Alaska Public Media

“The Don Young Port of Anchorage.”

That’s what a panel recommends renaming the city-owned Port of Alaska. There are two changes there: An honorary thing for the man who represented Alaska for 49 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, and a reversion to the place name historically attached to the port – Anchorage, not Alaska.

The proposed legislation credits Young with helping to steer hundreds of millions of dollars to port projects.

The panelists said in a letter that switching the name back to “of Anchorage” better reflects industry practice.

The “of Alaska” moniker is only five years old. The Anchorage Assembly changed the name in 2017 in a symbolic move, in part to convey to legislators who fund infrastructure projects the port’s importance to the entire state. Most freight, fuel and consumer goods that come to Alaska flow through the port.

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