Companies using Anchorage port want terminal work delayed

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A group of companies using Anchorage’s port want major rehabilitation work delayed while earthquake damage to critical infrastructure is still being assessed.

The Alaska Journal of Commerce reported Wednesday that eight companies have sent letters to city officials urging them to stop advancing work to build a new petroleum and cement import terminal.

The companies that make up the informal “Port of Alaska Users Group” wrote to Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz June 28 and members of the Anchorage Assembly July 12.

They say a plan to begin building a $220 million terminal without a strategy to cover all costs would leave the city with a “trestle to nowhere.”

Port officials say inspections following a November earthquake show the port’s two fuel docks remain at risk of failure in another earthquake.

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Information from: (Anchorage) Alaska Journal of Commerce, http://www.alaskajournal.com

The Associated Press

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