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Delegation Applauds $104 Million for Alaska Port and Maritime Infrastructure Projects
November 12, 2024 - U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska), and Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska), announced today that six coastal communities in Alaska will receive more than $104 million in investments this year for critical port and maritime infrastructure. These grants, funded by both annual appropriations and the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), will benefit port, harbor, and dock improvement and development in communities across Alaska.
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Anchorage Assembly approves expanded design for Port of Alaska’s cargo terminals
November 7, 2024 - The Anchorage Assembly on Wednesday unanimously passed three measures critical to moving ahead with the modernization project at the Don Young Port of Alaska, including approval of an expanded design for cargo terminal two.
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Construction of cargo terminal at Port of Alaska could be delayed due to lack of contractor bids
November 5, 2024 - As the Municipality of Anchorage presses forward with the massive modernization project at the Don Young Port of Alaska, city officials say that construction of the first cargo dock terminal will likely be delayed, and much of that work won’t start next summer as previously intended.
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Anchorage gets federal OK to start work on massive Port of Alaska modernization project
May 30, 2024 - Construction crews at the Don Young Port of Alaska on Wednesday began work on the next phase of the massive port modernization project, after the Municipality of Anchorage received a long-awaited federal environmental approval that unlocks tens of millions of dollars in grant funding.
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Anchorage Assembly approves renaming port ‘Don Young Port of Alaska’
Anchorage Daily News
The Anchorage Assembly has renamed the Port of Alaska after late U.S. Rep. Don Young. Members on Tuesday voted on a new name — the Don Young Port of Alaska...
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Port of Alaska Terminal Tariff No. 10
Port of Alaska Terminal Tariff No. 10 - Effective date, January 1, 2024
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Small Port, Big Challenges, Extreme Flexibility
Building to satisfy current and future public needs and market demands
By Steve Ribuffo, Director of the Port of Alaska
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Panel recommends renaming port after Don Young and reverting to ‘of Anchorage’
“The Don Young Port of Anchorage.” That’s what a panel recommends renaming the city-owned Port of Alaska. There are two changes there: An honorary thing for the man who represented Alaska for 49 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, and a reversion to the place name historically attached to the port – Anchorage, not Alaska.
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Anchorage Assembly OKs Port of Alaska cargo terminal design and user fees to finance project
Anchorage officials took two big steps forward Tuesday toward rebuilding the aging and vulnerable cargo lifeline almost the entire state relies on.
Most of the state’s incoming freight, fuel and consumer goods flow through the city-owned Port of Alaska, built in 1961. Corrosion and age are wearing down the sections used for cargo, which don’t meet modern shipping standards.
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Future of Port of Alaska discussed at work session
If major revitalization isn't done to the Port of Alaska, major portions of the dock will be taken out of service in as soon as seven years.
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Port of Alaska tops 5 million tons in 2022
A record 5,167, 935 tons of fuel and freight moved across Port of Alaska docks in 2022. This business increase continues a five-year trend that is driven by shippers taking advantage of supply chain efficiencies available in Anchorage and nowhere else in Alaska. Port of Alaska is state’s primary inbound cargo facility that handles half of all inbound freight and fuel that is delivered to final destinations statewide. Port of Alaska cargo handling logistics and efficiency are driven by:
- Location (proximity to markets) –54 percent of state residents live within a one-hour drive of Anchorage docks
- Infrastructure / workforce – Port of Alaska leverages hundreds of millions of dollars of public and private cargo-handling infrastructure and a large, skilled work force to move cargo to final destinations statewide
- Intermodal transportation connections – Anchorage docks connect Alaska’s primary cargo distribution networks to economically move cargo to final statewide destinations via marine, road, rail, air and/or pipeline systems
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Port of Alaska User Group Meeting
January 12, 2023: Port users met with Municipality of Anchorage officials to discuss Port of Alaska Modernization Program’s (PAMP) plan of finance and proposed Port of Alaska tariff surcharge concept to help finance program.
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USACE awards Port of Alaska maintenance dredging contract
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded Seattle, WA-based Manson Construction Company a $9,847,000 firm-fixed-price contract to perform Port of Alaska maintenance dredging.
MARAD grants the Municipality of Anchorage $20 million for Port of Alaska project
ANCHORAGE, AK—The U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration (MARAD) announced today that it awarded a $20 million infrastructure development grant to help replace aging Port of Alaska docks.
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Statewide and Port of Alaska Long Range Fuel Forecast
Download Statewide and Port of Alaska Long Range Fuel Forecast, Nov. 20, 2020 – pdf
Port of Alaska Terminal Tariff No. 9 effective Jan. 1, 2020
Port of Alaska Terminal Tariff No. 9 is effective on Jan. 1, 2020. Click here to view Terminal Tariff No. 9.
$25 million BUILD Grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation ensures timely construction of new petroleum and cement terminal:
The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded Port of Alaska a $25 million Better Utilizing Investment to Leverage Development (BUILD) Grant on November 6, 2019 to help fund a new petroleum and cement terminal.
Download Municipality of Anchorage news release about BUILD grant - pdf
