Port in the News

ARCTIC WARRIOR By Senior Airman Jonathan Valdes Montijo The 673d Logistics Readiness Squadron tested a tanker truck offload facility at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 25, 2019. The purpose of this facility is to provide a secondary means to receive JP-8 (aircraft fuel) in the event JBER’s fuel pipeline is out of service due to […]

By FAMILY OF MARION DAVIS Our beloved husband, father, and grandfather passed away at St. Vincent Providence Hospital in Portland, Oregon on July 18, 2019.  Marion was born on Sept. 18, 1948, in Greenville, Mississippi to Emett George Davis and Royce Christine Davis, the youngest of four siblings. His father was a carpenter, and Marion often […]

KTUU News By Derek Minemyer The Anchorage Assembly voted 8-3 to award a contract bid of $42 million for Pacific Pile & Marine to upgrade the Petroleum Cement Terminal at the Port of Alaska. Several Port of Alaska facilities have been used beyond their planned service life and engineers say that the port, through which roughly […]

Alaska Journal of Commerce By: Elwood Brehmer The Anchorage Assembly has approved funding to start a total rebuild to the docks at the city’s beleaguered port a decade after construction problems halted prior efforts to upgrade the essential infrastructure. An 8-3 Assembly vote at a July 30 special meeting allows city officials to award a $42.1 […]

KTUU News By Hank Davis During a special meeting on Tuesday, members of the Anchorage Assembly will be tasked with finally making a major decision about whether or not to move forward with the construction of an all-new, 40 million dollar petroleum and concrete terminal (PCT) at the Port of Alaska. The PCT is a major […]

KTUU News The (PCT) petroleum and concrete terminal would be phase on of a plan to bring the Port of Alaska back up to modern shipping standards. (KTUU) Watch Video Here: https://www.ktuu.com/video/?vid=513370222

Alaska Journal of Commerce By: Elwood Brehmer The primary users of Anchorage’s beleaguered port want city officials to delay the first major rehabilitation work at the port in years while port leaders continue to discover earthquake damage to critical infrastructure. The eight companies that make up the informal “Port of Alaska Users Group” sent similar […]

KTUU News By Derek Minemyer Businesses using the Port of Alaska (POA) are urging the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA) to slow down on a critical upgrade project. MOA officials are debating how -- and when -- to move forward with upgrades to the Petroleum and Cement Terminal (PCT), as part of the multi-year Port of Alaska […]

Alaska Journal of Commerce By: Elwood Brehmer Anchorage officials are moving ahead with a plan to build part of a new berth at the city’s beleaguered port while they look for ways to pay for the rest of it. Municipal Manager Bill Falsey said during a May 16 meeting of the Anchorage Assembly’s Enterprise and […]

KTVA News By: Dave Leval The Queen Elizabeth is impressive, much more than a floating hotel. It houses roughly 1,200 rooms that can accommodate close to 2,100 passengers. There are plenty of spiral staircases, a two-story library and a theater complete with box seating. There's also a casino, but you can only play in international waters. […]