Port in the News

Alaska Public Media By: Zachariah Hughes In a departure from big wish lists of the past, Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz’s legislative request has only one capital budget project. The administration is also pushing for a number of law changes designed to give local governments more financial flexibility. Berkowitz submitted his legislative program to the city’s Assembly […]

Alaska Journal of Commerce By: Elwood Brehmer The defendants in the Municipality of Anchorage’s lawsuit over its failed port expansion project have banded together to demand the city’s claim for monetary damages be tossed because they contend it has yet to specify what exactly it seeks to recoup. Attorneys for Anchorage-based PND Engineers filed a joint […]

Alaska Journal of Commerce By: Elwood Brehmer Anchorage has settled out of court for $12.6 million with three subcontractors in the city’s failed port expansion project while a lawsuit against other players in the complex drama continues. Most recently on Oct. 19, Terracon Consultants Inc. and the Municipality of Anchorage filed a motion in U.S. […]

Alaska Journal of Commerce By: Elwood Brehmer The global engineering firm CH2M is almost out of Anchorage’s lawsuit to settle liability for the municipality’s failed port expansion project after a Monday federal court ruling. U.S. District Court of Alaska Judge Sharon Gleason found the Municipality of Anchorage has little financial recourse against the company that, […]

KTUU News By: Beth Verge For the Port of Anchorage, and the team fixing it, the biggest challenge may be Father Time: The POA's docks are supported by 1423 steel piles - posts that hold the whole thing up - which are deteriorating so badly that many have lost up to three quarters of their […]

Dredging News Online The US Army Corps of Engineers-Alaska District has received a Section 408 permission request from the Port of Anchorage to modify an existing federal dredging project as part of the Anchorage Port Modernization Programme. The port’s programme consists of five phases to replace and modernize existing docks. The request for Section 408 permission […]

Alaska Dispatch News By: Alex DeMarban A second contractor has settled with the city in a lawsuit over the bungled Port of Anchorage expansion, with general contractor Quality Asphalt Paving agreeing to pay just over $5.1 million to end its financial liability in the case. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason ordered the company released from liability in the […]

Alaska Dispatch News By: Jeannette Lee Falsey With Alaska's economy sluggish, the volume of goods brought into the state by its two major shipping lines is on the decline. The moderate shrinkage of imports has competitors Matson and Totem Ocean Trailer Express, known as TOTE, working harder to defend market share while continuing investment in a […]

Alaska Business Monthly - October 2016 By Julie Stricker An Alaska road map is barren by Lower 48 standards. Most of the roads in the 49th State are concentrated in the most-populous Southcentral region, with two highways connecting Fairbanks and Anchorage. One of those turns to the east and Canada. The other heads north, ending on the shores of the Arctic Ocean […]

When the Port of Anchorage (POA) initiated its Test Pile Program earlier this year, careful attention was paid to potential noise impacts. Long- and short-term noise monitors collected data at locations in Government Hill and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's Cherry Hill residential area. The monitoring equipment captured baseline noise levels, and compared this to noise generated […]