Dan Sullivan
United States Senator for Alaska

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded a $20 million Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) grant to the Port of Alaska, located in Anchorage.

“I want to thank Secretary Chao for recognizing the dire state of one of Alaska’s most important pieces of infrastructure and heeding the call of Alaskans by approving this much-needed PIDP grant,” Continue reading →

KTUU Channel 2 News
By Matt Leseman

ANCHORAGE (KTUU) The US Department of Transportation Maritime Administration announced Tuesday that it will award the Port of Alaska with a $20 million grant to aid in the construction of a new cement and petroleum terminal.

The grant comes on top of another $25 million dollar grant from the DOT in 2019, as well as various other sources of state and federal funding funding the construction, which is estimated to cost just over Continue reading →

KTVA News
By: Joe Vigil

Anchorage municipal manager Bill Falsey called Tuesday a “good day” after it was announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation awarded a $20 million infrastructure development grant to the Port of Alaska.

Municipal leaders say the Port Infrastructure Development Program grant is on top of a $25 million Better Utilizing Investment to Leverage Development grant DOT awarded last November.

The grant will go toward the port’s modernization project, which includes construction of a Continue reading →

Alaska Public Media
By: Zachariah Hughes

The Port of Alaska is getting another boost in federal funding.

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan’s office announced Tuesday that the federal Department of Transportation Maritime Administration is awarding a $20 million grant to pay for infrastructure improvements.

“This grant will help restore the Port of Alaska’s status as a safe, cost-effective, reliable and resilient piece of infrastructure,” Sullivan said.

This follows a separate $25 million grant from the Department of Transportation for the Continue reading →

ANCHORAGE, AK— The U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration (MARAD) announced today that it awarded a $20 million infrastructure development grant to help replace aging Port of Alaska docks.

MARAD’s Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) offered $292.7 million in nationwide grant opportunities in 2019 to pay up to 80 percent of project costs for U.S. coastal seaport improvements. Port of Alaska applied for PIDP funding to help offset construction costs of its new petroleum and cement terminal (PCT) that starts Continue reading →

Anchorage Daily News
Author: Elwood Brehmer , Alaska Journal of Commerce

It’s a little more expensive for most companies to move fuel and cement across the docks at the Anchorage port.

The Anchorage Assembly approved new tariffs on the commodities on Dec. 17. While the import charges are regularly updated to account for inflation and operational costs at the port — renamed the Port of Alaska in 2017 — the latest tariff hike is significantly greater than normal Continue reading →

Alaska Journal of Commerce
By: Elwood Brehmer

Beginning Jan. 1 it will be a little more expensive for most companies to move fuel and cement across the docks at the Anchorage port.

That’s because the Anchorage Assembly approved new tariffs on the commodities on Dec. 17. While the import charges are regularly updated to account for inflation and operational costs at the port — renamed the Port of Alaska in 2017 — the latest tariff hike is significantly greater than Continue reading →

Anchorage Daily News
Author: James Brooks

The Alaska Municipal League is asking state lawmakers to take out a loan to pay for needed port and harbor improvements across Alaska, including work at the Port of Alaska in Anchorage.

But top lawmakers aren’t yet willing to go along, saying the state first needs to resolve a $1.5 billion deficit forecast for the fiscal year that starts July 1.

Alaska has slashed its capital budget for years, leading to a billion-dollar Continue reading →

KTVA News
By: Joe Vigil

The Port of Alaska recently showed KTVA damage from the 7.1 earthquake. Several piles, which hold up docks at the port, split at the weld points.

“It’s put together like a paper towel roll, like those Pillsbury rolls, dinner rolls,” said Port Director Steve Ribuffo.

Ribuffo added, “You can’t use that anymore because once it’s untwisted you can’t twist it back and weld it back.”

The port has been working to repair piles, with Continue reading →