Over two meetings this week, Anchorage Assembly members will take votes that have big implications for how the critical infrastructure at the Port of Alaska functions for decades to come.
A crane unloads containers from the Matson Tacoma, on May 9, 2023 at the Port of Alaska in Anchorage.
The port, a critical piece of infrastructure in the northwest corner of Anchorage, handles a huge share of goods and critical materials that Alaskans all over the state depend on, from groceries and construction material to cement and aviation fuel. The dock terminals are aged and badly eroded, and municipal officials have struggled for years to redevelop them amid warnings that one well-placed earthquake or environmental disaster could easily bring it down.
“It feels to me like we’re now close, like we’re there, practically, so that to me is a huge development,” Assembly Chair Christopher Constant said Friday after aThe major issue is how big to build the two terminals that receive cargo ships from commercial vessels.
Vice Chair Meg Zaletel said during the Friday work session she intends to introduce an amended version of the ordinance that would begin work on the first phase of the terminal upgrades, and put off a decision about whether to invest in the expanded option in the project’s second phase until after the Assembly has been showed detailed cost projections prepared by engineers in the next couple months, and can weigh a substantive cost-benefit analysis as it decides how to proceed.
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