Port in the News

Alaska Public Media By Zachariah Hughes The U.S. military is looking for new ways to expand its presence in Arctic waters. Last week saw the first ever Arctic Maritime Symposium to be hosted by Alaskan Command at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage. The three-day event brought together senior military officials, academics and civilian leaders to discuss what […]

KTVA News By Chris Klint A U.S. Navy destroyer is visiting Anchorage this week, as part of an event being held on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson highlighting changes in the Arctic. The USS Momsen, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer homeported in Everett, Wash., was tied up at the Port of Alaska Wednesday. Port director Steve Ribuffo […]

KTVA News By Scott Gross For the first time since 2015, a Navy Destroyer made it's way to the Port of Alaska. "Right now, we know that the environment is changing," Director for Operations for Alaska Command Col. Mark Schmidt said. "What that means to us? We don't know. We want to understand and get after […]

Military.com By Amy Bushatz PORT OF ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Just 20 U.S. sailors are currently stationed in Alaska. But thanks to a shift in how the U.S. is thinking about Arctic defense, that could be about to change. That, at least, is what this week's first-ever Arctic Maritime Symposium aims to explore, said Navy Capt. Layne McDowell, […]

Aves Thompson, Executive Director of the Alaska Trucking Association (ATA), and a long-time friend and colleague of WTC Anchorage, has received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM). Since 1905, NCWM's primary function has been to develop the national standards for weights and measures. Prior to that, there was […]

Anchorage Daily News Author: Marc Lester Zaandam, a 780-foot Holland America cruise ship, arrived in Anchorage early Monday, May 14. Passengers aboard it are on a two-week cruise that originated in Seattle and traveled to several ports in Southeast Alaska before coming here. The ship has 716 staterooms and can carry more than 1,800 passengers. In […]

KTVA News by Mary Simton A record number of visitors came to Alaska in 2017 and experts predict that number will keep growing. This year, the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) is expecting 34 ships with more than 500 voyages and more than one million passengers to make their way to Alaska. That translates into dollar […]

KTUU News By: Kortnie Horazdovsky The Alaska Senate Finance committee rolled out its version of the state’s capital budget Wednesday afternoon – making more than $280 million in reductions to the version proposed by Gov. Bill Walker. The capital budget, which provides for the state’s infrastructure like roads, airports and buildings, came in at $1.4 […]

Anchorage Daily News By: Annie Zak It's not an uncommon problem in Alaska groceries: A whole shelf meant for bananas was almost completely empty one day last week at the Fred Meyer store in Midtown Anchorage. Keeping fresh produce that's grown thousands of miles away in stock here is a delicate system that grocers have […]

BY CRAIGMEDRED At 12:39 a.m. on the night of the great Alaska tsunami that wasn’t, the Anchorage Office of Emergency Management sent out an email of a “tsunami warning until 01:35 a.m.” It was fake news, but most of the residents of Alaska’s largest urban area would be unaware for at least the next 26 minutes. Not until 1:01 […]