Port in the News

Alaska Dispatch News By: Alex DeMarban A Hawaii-based transportation company has spent more than $700 million to enter the Alaska market over two years by buying up freight companies and upgrading facilities — just as the state's economy was souring and business was drooping. But officials with Matson on Tuesday said they are taking a long view and […]

KTUU News By Dan Carpenter An amendment to city land use and zoning rules now allows the Port of Anchorage to maintain its storage tanks near Government Hill but requires a public process before any new tanks can be built. “It is challenging having this amount of chemical, toxic, flammable materials in one location,” said […]

KTUU News By: Travis Khachatoorian After an outcry from the Government Hill neighborhood, the municipality is adding an amendment to a proposed ordinance that would roll back regulations on constructing new fuel tanks at the Port of Anchorage. The city said the problem stems from changes to the Title 21 zoning laws. The rewrite, enacted […]

Petroleum News The Municipality of Anchorage, which sued PND Engineers Inc. in 2013 over the failed Port of Anchorage intermodal expansion project and sought more than $100 million in damages, has settled with PND for $750,000. PND was the designer of record on the project, which was halted before completion of the construction. “We are […]

Alaska Journal of Commerce By: Elwood Brehmer The Municipality of Anchorage has settled its lawsuit against all the private contractors involved in the bungled and scrapped Port of Anchorage Intermodal Expansion Project, clearing the way for a renewed court showdown with the federal government. In less than a week starting Jan. 26, municipal attorneys filed […]

KTVA News By Daniella Rivera A municipal attorney says Anchorage has taken a major step forward, settling with the last three of the seven companies involved in the failed Port of Anchorage expansion project. Robert Owens says what happens to the port happens to Alaskans, because 85 percent of the goods sold in southcentral and western […]

Anchorage Dispatch News By Devin Kelly The city of Anchorage has reached settlements with three remaining contractors involved in the botched Port of Anchorage expansion project, ending a lawsuit that stretched nearly three years and recouped only a fraction of what the city had sought in damages. Engineering firm CH2M Hill Alaska Inc. paid the city $1.5 million, according to the settlement filed in […]

Popular Mechanics By Tim Newcomb The American Society of Civil Engineers has given U.S. infrastructure a D+ rating. Although that's technically passing, it's not exactly the grade you want for the bridges needed to get you to work, the power grids that charge your home, or the levees that keep you nice and dry. Donald […]

KTVA By Emily Carlson The Municipality of Anchorage will get $3.75 million from one of the contractors who worked on the failed port of Anchorage expansion project. Municipal attorney Bob Owens says Integrated Concepts and Research Corporation (ICRC) was one of several companies that caused $329 million in damages at the port. Assembly members have […]

Alaska Dispatch News By: Devin Kelly A key contractor in the botched Port of Anchorage expansion project has settled with the city of Anchorage for $3.75 million, clearing what one city attorney described as a roadblock to other settlements in the case. Integrated Concepts and Research Corp., a subsidiary of the Virginia-based engineering and technical […]