Port in the News

Alaska Journal of Commerce By: Elwood Brehmer The global engineering firm CH2M is almost out of Anchorage’s lawsuit to settle liability for the municipality’s failed port expansion project after a Monday federal court ruling. U.S. District Court of Alaska Judge Sharon Gleason found the Municipality of Anchorage has little financial recourse against the company that, […]

KTUU News By: Beth Verge For the Port of Anchorage, and the team fixing it, the biggest challenge may be Father Time: The POA's docks are supported by 1423 steel piles - posts that hold the whole thing up - which are deteriorating so badly that many have lost up to three quarters of their […]

Dredging News Online The US Army Corps of Engineers-Alaska District has received a Section 408 permission request from the Port of Anchorage to modify an existing federal dredging project as part of the Anchorage Port Modernization Programme. The port’s programme consists of five phases to replace and modernize existing docks. The request for Section 408 permission […]

Alaska Dispatch News By: Alex DeMarban A second contractor has settled with the city in a lawsuit over the bungled Port of Anchorage expansion, with general contractor Quality Asphalt Paving agreeing to pay just over $5.1 million to end its financial liability in the case. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason ordered the company released from liability in the […]

Alaska Dispatch News By: Jeannette Lee Falsey With Alaska's economy sluggish, the volume of goods brought into the state by its two major shipping lines is on the decline. The moderate shrinkage of imports has competitors Matson and Totem Ocean Trailer Express, known as TOTE, working harder to defend market share while continuing investment in a […]

Alaska Business Monthly - October 2016 By Julie Stricker An Alaska road map is barren by Lower 48 standards. Most of the roads in the 49th State are concentrated in the most-populous Southcentral region, with two highways connecting Fairbanks and Anchorage. One of those turns to the east and Canada. The other heads north, ending on the shores of the Arctic Ocean […]

When the Port of Anchorage (POA) initiated its Test Pile Program earlier this year, careful attention was paid to potential noise impacts. Long- and short-term noise monitors collected data at locations in Government Hill and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's Cherry Hill residential area. The monitoring equipment captured baseline noise levels, and compared this to noise generated […]

Executive Summary Aging infrastructure at the Port of Anchorage (POA) has far exceeded its economic and design life. Some of the oldest parts of the current infrastructure date back to the early 1960s. The POA is planning to undertake a reconstruction project—the Anchorage Port Modernization Program (APMP)—to improve and update these facilities. The APMP is […]

PRE-RFP SITE VISITS Pre-Request for Proposal site visits of the Port of Anchorage North Extension will be conducted as follows: Sept. 20, 1:00 – 2:00 PM Sept. 21, 1:00 – 2:00 PM Sept. 22, 1:00 – 2:00 PM  Pre-RFP site visit attendance list from Sept. 20-22, 2016 – pdf Reservations are required as group size […]

KUAC - Fairbanks By Tim Ellis Some 5,000 soldiers from around the country and Canada are headed back home after a grueling three-week field-training exercise on ranges around Fort Greely. Arctic Anvil was the biggest exercise U.S. Army-Alaska has held since 2001. It was intended to test the Stryker Brigade’s warfighting abilities. But it also […]