Port in the News

KTVA News By: Dave Leval The Queen Elizabeth is impressive, much more than a floating hotel. It houses roughly 1,200 rooms that can accommodate close to 2,100 passengers. There are plenty of spiral staircases, a two-story library and a theater complete with box seating. There's also a casino, but you can only play in international waters. […]

Alaska Journal of Commerce By: Elwood Brehmer The Anchorage Assembly has brought in some familiar names in Alaska political and maritime circles to determine the best path forward on its troubled port modernization project. The Assembly Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee on April 18 approved a $45,000 contract to a partnership of the national project […]

Alaska Journal of Commerce By: Elwood Brehmer The Anchorage Assembly is seeking help to determine once and for all if it really needs to spend roughly $1.9 billion to rebuild the city’s deteriorating port. Assembly member Christopher Constant, who has started a reexamination of the Anchorage Port modernization program as co-chair of the Assembly’s Enterprise […]

KTUU News By Hank Davis The Anchorage Assembly is seeking outside assistance to identify ways to cut down costs for the $1.9 billion Port Modernization Project. The updated cost came out earlier this year, leaving city leaders looking for alternatives to avoid the massive price projection. Chris Constant, who serves as a co-chair for the Assembly's Enterprise […]

By: Milbank News Writer As the Dunleavy administration prepares its first budget, the governor and his staff would be wise to review the history of state transportation megaprojects during the past 15 years. Realistically examining and canceling unaffordable projects would save the state millions of dollars on planning, as well as billions of dollars in […]

Anchorage Daily News By: James Brooks Even if it doesn’t have all the money in hand, the Municipality of Anchorage will begin construction on the first phase of the Port of Alaska replacement project next summer, Municipal Manager Bill Falsey told state lawmakers in a Thursday hearing of the Senate Finance Committee. That first phase, […]

By Tim Bradner Anchorage Press The warning seems dire enough: Anchorage’s docks could start closing in about nine years due to corrosion and obsolescence, and possibly sooner if there is another big earthquake. Corrosion in some of the 36-inch steel piles that support the dock is so bad that the steel wall thickness on some […]

By: Kirsten Swann, Alaska Public Media  The entire project is estimated to cost more than $1.9 billion. Assemblyman Chris Constant, co-chair of the Assembly Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee, said the shock of the latest cost estimate led to a moment of clarity: now, he said, lawmakers hoped an independent analysis could help assess their […]

By: Elwood Brehmer Alaska Journal of Commerce Anchorage port customers on March 15 affirmed the possibility that self-funding a rebuild of the critical but badly corroded infrastructure they use might drive ultimately business away from the port and Anchorage in general. Municipal and port officials are once again in the midst of an analysis to […]

Anchorage Daily News The Anchorage Daily News asked candidates for the April 2 election to the Anchorage Assembly to answer a series of questions on issues facing those bodies. Many of the questions were suggested by readers. We’re publishing select responses daily. The answers were fact-checked when facts were cited and edited for spelling, grammar […]