Ketchikan has long sought an alternative to the ferry system that connects the city to its airport on nearby Gravina Island.
Shannon McCarthy, a spokesperson for the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT & PF), said this has been going on for more than four seasons.
Amid ongoing funding problems, the schedule looks a lot like it has in other recent years. Just six of the state's nine ...
Summer ferry bookings open statewide, Whittier’s biggest harbor cleanup pulls 7,000 lbs of debris, daffodils signal spring in ...
The analysis says efficiency gains and fuel savings from the shorter sailing distance from Cascade Point to Haines and Skagway — after deducting the additional costs of operating a second terminal in ...
The schedule looks a lot like recent years, with six of the state’s nine vessels sailing. There is not enough funding or staffing to run them all, according to the state Department of Transportation.
The MV Tustumena is scheduled to make five chain runs between June and September, roughly the same schedule since the start/onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when sailings were cut in half.
AML stopped shipping EVs to Alaska last year, after another company’s ship caught fire and sank off Adak while carrying ...
The Alaska Marine Highway System has never fully paid its own way with ticket revenues; it’s always needed state money to cover the gap between what it costs to operate the fleet and what it can ...
The pushback has largely centered around concerns that the new terminal would make regional travel less convenient and efficient, not more, as the state has argued.
AML was the last barge company to pull EVs off its Alaska shipping routes after Matson and Tote Maritime. Now, EVs can be shipped two ways: on the road system, which doesn’t extend to much of ...
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