Port in the News

Military.com By Amy Bushatz PORT OF ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Just 20 U.S. sailors are currently stationed in Alaska. But thanks to a shift in how the U.S. is thinking about Arctic defense, that could be about to change. That, at least, is what this week's first-ever Arctic Maritime Symposium aims to explore, said Navy Capt. Layne McDowell, […]

Aves Thompson, Executive Director of the Alaska Trucking Association (ATA), and a long-time friend and colleague of WTC Anchorage, has received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM). Since 1905, NCWM's primary function has been to develop the national standards for weights and measures. Prior to that, there was […]

Anchorage Daily News Author: Marc Lester Zaandam, a 780-foot Holland America cruise ship, arrived in Anchorage early Monday, May 14. Passengers aboard it are on a two-week cruise that originated in Seattle and traveled to several ports in Southeast Alaska before coming here. The ship has 716 staterooms and can carry more than 1,800 passengers. In […]

KTVA News by Mary Simton A record number of visitors came to Alaska in 2017 and experts predict that number will keep growing. This year, the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) is expecting 34 ships with more than 500 voyages and more than one million passengers to make their way to Alaska. That translates into dollar […]

KTUU News By: Kortnie Horazdovsky The Alaska Senate Finance committee rolled out its version of the state’s capital budget Wednesday afternoon – making more than $280 million in reductions to the version proposed by Gov. Bill Walker. The capital budget, which provides for the state’s infrastructure like roads, airports and buildings, came in at $1.4 […]

Anchorage Daily News By: Annie Zak It's not an uncommon problem in Alaska groceries: A whole shelf meant for bananas was almost completely empty one day last week at the Fred Meyer store in Midtown Anchorage. Keeping fresh produce that's grown thousands of miles away in stock here is a delicate system that grocers have […]

BY CRAIGMEDRED At 12:39 a.m. on the night of the great Alaska tsunami that wasn’t, the Anchorage Office of Emergency Management sent out an email of a “tsunami warning until 01:35 a.m.” It was fake news, but most of the residents of Alaska’s largest urban area would be unaware for at least the next 26 minutes. Not until 1:01 […]

AGC of Alaska By Rindi White Piles under Port of Alaska in need of serious repair, officials say Below the waterline at the main port in Anchorage, a “slow-motion disaster” is taking place. The port, renamed the Port of Alaska in October to reflect the intermodal transport hub’s importance to the statewide economy, is on […]

Alaska Journal of Commerce By: Elwood Brehmer Anchorage municipal attorneys settled half of their tangled litigation over the long-failed Port of Anchorage expansion project but it was more of the same for port officials trying to drum up hundreds of millions of dollars for the scaled back but badly needed modernization plan. In less than a […]

KTUU News By Sean Maguire An estimated 340 barrels of jet fuel spilled into a secondary containment area late Saturday at the ocean dock at the Port of Anchorage. The containment system is believed to prevent a far worse scenario: the 18,000-plus gallons of fuel spilling into icy Cook Inlet, where a cleanup would have been […]