Port in the News

KTUU News By Hank Davis The Anchorage Assembly is seeking outside assistance to identify ways to cut down costs for the $1.9 billion Port Modernization Project. The updated cost came out earlier this year, leaving city leaders looking for alternatives to avoid the massive price projection. Chris Constant, who serves as a co-chair for the Assembly's Enterprise […]

By: Milbank News Writer As the Dunleavy administration prepares its first budget, the governor and his staff would be wise to review the history of state transportation megaprojects during the past 15 years. Realistically examining and canceling unaffordable projects would save the state millions of dollars on planning, as well as billions of dollars in […]

Anchorage Daily News By: James Brooks Even if it doesn’t have all the money in hand, the Municipality of Anchorage will begin construction on the first phase of the Port of Alaska replacement project next summer, Municipal Manager Bill Falsey told state lawmakers in a Thursday hearing of the Senate Finance Committee. That first phase, […]

By Tim Bradner Anchorage Press The warning seems dire enough: Anchorage’s docks could start closing in about nine years due to corrosion and obsolescence, and possibly sooner if there is another big earthquake. Corrosion in some of the 36-inch steel piles that support the dock is so bad that the steel wall thickness on some […]

By: Kirsten Swann, Alaska Public Media  The entire project is estimated to cost more than $1.9 billion. Assemblyman Chris Constant, co-chair of the Assembly Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee, said the shock of the latest cost estimate led to a moment of clarity: now, he said, lawmakers hoped an independent analysis could help assess their […]

By: Elwood Brehmer Alaska Journal of Commerce Anchorage port customers on March 15 affirmed the possibility that self-funding a rebuild of the critical but badly corroded infrastructure they use might drive ultimately business away from the port and Anchorage in general. Municipal and port officials are once again in the midst of an analysis to […]

Anchorage Daily News The Anchorage Daily News asked candidates for the April 2 election to the Anchorage Assembly to answer a series of questions on issues facing those bodies. Many of the questions were suggested by readers. We’re publishing select responses daily. The answers were fact-checked when facts were cited and edited for spelling, grammar […]

  Alaska Journal of Commerce By: Elwood Brehmer Faced with a looming price tag of nearly $2 billion to fix its port, unsavory funding options and competing claims, the Anchorage Assembly is again examining every aspect of rebuilding one of Alaska’s most critical pieces of infrastructure. The Assembly began its third review of plans to […]

KTUU News By Rebecca Palsha Many Alaskans had sticker shock when they saw the updated cost for the Port of Alaska: Almost $2 billion. It prompted many lawmakers and city leaders to rally behind what is essentially an audit of the project. Anchorage Assemblyman Chris Constant organized a special meeting of Municipality of Anchorage Utility and […]

Anchorage Daily News Author: Elwood Brehmer, Alaska Journal of Commerce Import charges levied on basic commodities at the Anchorage port could increase fivefold or more if the municipality is forced to rebuild decrepit shoreside infrastructure on its own dime, according to an analysis released last week. The analysis looks at how much Port of Alaska tariffs […]