Port in the News

Alaska Dispatch News By: Nathaniel Herz JUNEAU — The Alaska Senate released its proposed capital budget Monday, and one of its few big projects was a line item to buy the Legislature’s Anchorage offices for $32.5 million, the price approved by a legislative committee two weeks ago. Missing from the Senate’s capital budget: a request from […]

KTUU News By: Travis Khachatoorian With legislators running out of time, officials at the Port of Anchorage are beginning to worry their efforts to secure funding to fix the crumbling infrastructure at the state’s most productive dock will be pushed aside by lawmakers. House Bill 329 is stuck in a House finance committee with no signs […]

Alaska Dispatch News By: Annie Zak Dredging at the Port of Anchorage, the perpetual task of digging silt out of the port's waters so ships can dock without hitting bottom, started early again this year to handle the extra silt built up because of the current configuration of the port. A lack of ice this past […]

Business View Magazine By: BVMLLADMIN It would be hard to make the case that anything good could ever come out of an earthquake. Especially an earthquake of enormous destructive power, like the Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964, the most powerful tremor ever recorded in U.S. and North American history. Registering a magnitude of 9.2 on […]

The 30-day window for test pile construction is anticipated to begin April 29, 2016. Ten piles will be installed, with each pile taking between 3 and 4 hours to install. During the TPP, the POA will provide updates at regularly scheduled Government Hill Community Council meetings (http://communitycouncils.org/servlet/content/17.html), as well as updates here on the POA […]

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Alaska Dispatch News By: Annie Zak After a two-week delay, Tote Maritime Alaska’s cargo ship the North Star has finally set sail from Tacoma, bound for Anchorage. The company said in a press release on Friday that the ship successfully completed sea trials before departing at 7 a.m. Friday morning, and is scheduled to arrive in Anchorage […]

Alaska Public Media By: Zachariah Hughes Last week’s stalled food delivery, which left many grocery store shelves bare, followed by Sunday’s 7.1 earthquake has left many people wondering how prepared Alaska is for an emergency. And more importantly, how vulnerable are we in these situations? On this week’s Alaska Edition, we discuss emergency preparedness in the […]

Alaska Dispatch News By: Annie Zak A Tote Maritime Alaska ship that was supposed to depart from Tacoma for Anchorage nearly two weeks ago won’t return to service as anticipated on Wednesday. The North Star, one of the company’s two cargo ships that runs regularly on the Tacoma-to-Anchorage route, did not leave Washington state as scheduled […]

The Maritime Executive By: MarEx A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck southern Alaska early on Sunday, and its effects were felt for hundreds of miles from the epicenter. The quake struck at 1:30 AM, at the foot of a mountain chain just west of Cook Inlet, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported. The Fairbanks-based Alaska Earthquake Center reported […]