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Japan is an important player in Alaska’s mining industry. In 2009, mining products accounted for about 14 percent of the US$981 million in commodities the Far North state shipped to the island nation. Japan is nearly 100 percent dependent on imported minerals. Itochu Corp., an enormous and long-lived Japanese company, has agreed to invest as much [...] The new crane replaces the one that collapsed in severe winds last year. The crane was vacant at the time. APL’s crane collapsed this past winter after a storm hit Unalaska, knocked over by winds reported to be up to 170 miles per hour. For the past eight months, APL has loaded and unloaded its [...] Six additional cruise ships due next year at the Port of Astoria include larger ships from Alaska heading for ports south. That according to cruise ship marketing representative Bruce Conner who says 15 ships are now booked here. “The economy has turned around for us in the cruise industry. Our cruise hosts have shown the [...] Lines and TOTE handle about 75 percent of the waterborne cargo between Tacoma to Alaska. Thanks to the Jones Act, they use vessels built in the U.S. and manned by Americans — but that could change if McCain succeeds in repealing the Jones Act. Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain has introduced legislation that would repeal [...]
The Mariner of the Seas and its 250,000 passengers annually have made up 30 percent of the Port of Los Angeles' cruise business. Starting in January, it will be based in Galveston, Texas, and sail to Europe and the Caribbean. Cruise lines are also scaling back their trips to Mexico from San [...] The bulk coal carrier JP Azure visited Port MacKenzie as part of a feasibility study on whether Alaska coal can be shipped from the port to Japan. (Courtesy Mat-Su Borough) The biggest ship ever to tie up at Port MacKenzie, AK, too large to fit through the Panama Canal, has Mat-Su Borough officials excited. The 754-foot-long, [...] A cruise ship leaving Seattle It was the best of times and now the worst of times. Vancouver, with more than 900,000 Alaska-bound passengers in 2009, is down this year to less than 600,000. Seattle, with 846,000 passengers this year, will lose two ships and more than 75,000 passengers in 2011. Cruise business peaked in 2002, [...] One of the U.S. Coast Guard's two icecutters. Click on the image to read the Politics Daily article. As huge swaths of once inaccessible polar region open, few Americans realize how woefully behind the U.S. government has lagged in addressing security and commerce issues. For instance, tourist ships have already started sailing through the once [...] Bering Strait shipping lanes are opening up as polar ice melts. Click on the image to read the Alaska Dispatch article. As Arctic sea ice melts at unprecedented rates, opening new shipping routes, it is time for Alaskans to demand a seat at the table for planning coastal infrastructure. It is no longer a question [...] One of the two Horizon Lines freighters that has been idled for many months at the Port of Bellingham’s shipping terminal is departing and heading back into service. The Horizon Consumer, which has been here since May 17, 2009, was scheduled to depart Thursday, Jan. 14, for Tacoma. It will carry freight to and from [...] APL ships will be arriving in Unalaska as planned, despite the recent fall of their crane. The ships will be loaded and unloaded at the city dock using the Horizon Lines crane. … “Maersk brings their ships on Monday and Tuesday, APL typically brings theirs on Wednesday, and ours usually shows up on Friday,” said [...]
Dutch Harbor crane collapses Winds as high as 125 mph toppled a 110-foot gantry crane at a shipping facility in Dutch Harbor. A spokesman for American President Lines Ltd. says no people or other structures were damaged when the crane fell at 8:45 p.m. Friday evening. Mike Zampa says the company is still [...] |
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