Port in the News

World Cement By: Rebecca Bowden The majority of freight and supplies for the state of Alaska enters through the Port of Anchorage. One of these products is bulk powdered cement. A number of years ago, Alaska Basic Industries, a joint venture between CalPortland and Alaska Sand & Gravel, the terminal owner and operator, looked at various […]

Alaska Dispatch News By: Devin Kelly In about 10 years, the docks at the Port of Anchorage will start closing, crippled by corrosion, unless major repairs are made. But with the clock ticking, it's still unclear who will pay for it, and how. Without a big injection of state or federal funding, officials say the port, […]

KTUU News By: Blake Essig Roughly 85% of statewide infrastructure comes into Alaska through the Port of Anchorage, a port that is nearly 60 years old, covered in rust, and according to city officials, at risk of collapsing into the inlet. "The engineers who do the inspections on an annual basis have told us that we've got about […]

Alaska Dispatch News By : Devin Kelly The Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday night near-unanimously rolled back a recently enacted safety buffer between the Government Hill neighborhood and new tanks for storing fuel and other hazardous materials at the Port of Anchorage, though such facilities must still pass a public review before being built. Downtown Assemblyman Christopher […]

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 […]