Port in the News

By Wesley Early Alaska Public Media  The federal Department of Transportation will have to pay $367,446,809 to the Municipality of Anchorage due to various failures with the Port of Alaska expansion project. A judge issued the order Thursday. The municipality sued the federal government over the various design and construction defects with the port project more than […]

By Megan Pacer KTUU News A federal judge with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims has awarded the Municipality of Anchorage more than $367 million in damages for failed construction performed during an expansion project for the city’s port. The U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled in favor of the municipality back in December over the city’s port […]

By Elwood Brehmer Alaska Journal of Commerce Anchorage is another big step closer to getting reimbursed for much of the failed construction work at the city’s port. A federal judge on Thursday awarded the city every dime of the $367.4 million Anchorage attorneys had been asking for in its years-long lawsuit against the federal government. […]

By Anchorage Daily News editorial board When Gov. Mike Dunleavy rolled out his proposed budget and a general obligation bond package in December, one item on the infrastructure shortlist raised eyebrows: $175 million allocated for the “Knik Arm Port.” When pressed on what that line item referred to, given that there are two ports in Knik Arm of […]

Anchorage Daily News By Zaz Hollander Gov. Mike Dunleavy is proposing a funding injection to shore up Anchorage’s bustling Port of Alaska but linked with the nearly idle port 5 miles across Knik Arm in the governor’s home base of Mat-Su. The Dunleavy administration is suggesting the Municipality of Anchorage and Matanuska-Susitna Borough look at forming […]

Anchorage Daily News  By Dave Bronson When I came into office, resolving the homelessness crisis in Anchorage was my No. 1 priority. However, as my team and I assessed the dire situation at the Port of Alaska, it became quite clear that rebuilding and modernizing the port had to become the chief focus of my administration. […]

By Zachariah Hughes Anchorage Daily News The Municipality of Anchorage won a major court victory over the federal government in a long-running dispute centered on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of faulty work done during a project to overhaul the Port of Alaska. Last week, Senior Judge Edward J. Damich with the U.S. Court of Federal […]

By Megan Pacer and Patrick Enslow KTUU After seven years pending in the court system, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on Thursday ruled in favor of the Municipality of Anchorage in the lawsuit it filed against the U.S. Maritime Administration over the city’s port expansion project. “It’s an enormous vindication of what we’ve been saying all along, […]

By Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media  Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson says his administration is working to bolster economic development in the city through upgrades at the Port of Alaska. “Today, we are one seismic event away from catastrophic failure of our port,” Bronson said Monday during his State of the City address to the Anchorage […]

By: Elwood Brehmer Alaska Journal of Commerce If all continues going largely according to plan, the first major piece of a long-sought and badly needed overhaul to the Port of Alaska will be in service by year-end, according to officials. Construction crews are in their second year of work on the new petroleum and cement […]