Port of Alaska - City and users clash over potential cement and petroleum tariffs

KTUU News
By Derek Minemyer

Businesses using the Port of Alaska (POA) are urging the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA) to slow down on a critical upgrade project.

MOA officials are debating how -- and when -- to move forward with upgrades to the Petroleum and Cement Terminal (PCT), as part of the multi-year Port of Alaska Modernization Program (PAMP). Port users met with the Anchorage Assembly and the Mayor’s Office to discuss the project at a joint session Friday.

"There's an overall lack of confidence of it being completed,” said Casey Sullivan, a spokesperson for Marathon Petroleum. “The project, as designed, in our opinion, is unaffordable."

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