Craig Tornga became the new head of the Alaska Marine Highway System this month. He is in charge of a fleet of nine ships and hundreds of ferry workers. And he says his number one priority is seeking reliability.
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“This is a good job. This is one of the best jobs I ever had,” said Earling Walli, regional director of the Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific, the largest of Alaska’s ferry unions. “But you need to get paid and need guaranteed work. So, I think at this point, the Marine Highway can only go up. We hit rock bottom.”
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“To meet this requirement, the state is proposing to use an innovative federal aid highway tool that allows the state to use existing federal dollars to capture these new federal dollars,” said DOT Commissioner, Ryan Anderson.
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One of the first Alaska Marine Highway vessels could be reborn nearly 60 years later as a museum for the history of the state ferry system.
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DOT says four parties have expressed interest in the 450-passenger Malaspina. It’s the latest twist in the process initiated by the Dunleavy administration to dispose of a once iconic state ferry that’s been idle since 2019.
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The state Department of Transportation says it’s received an offer to buy the ferry Malaspina. But it says it’ll entertain other offers through March 7 with the preference that it remain in Alaska.
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The state Department of Transportation says the larger ferry Kennicott hit the Hubbard while docking in the early morning hours. A damage estimate has not been released.
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The cost of keeping an idled Alaska ferry at the dock is nearly twice as much as reported to the public and state lawmakers. Yet prospective buyers, including one that would use it to fight piracy, have had their calls go unanswered.
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