Archive of: Transportation

Official: Competing apps could slow project

A state official says competing applications to provide natural gas distribution in North Pole could slow a liquefied natural gas trucking plan.

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner/AP

Critics knock Alaska Airlines plan for Fairbanks

A decision by Alaska Airlines to serve Fairbanks with turboprop airplanes instead of jets for service to Anchorage has launched a barrage of complaints from residents of Alaska's second-largest city, with many expressing their anger through social media.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Alaska Airlines making plane changes for Fairbanks

Alaska Airlines plans to replace most of the jets it flies between Fairbanks and Anchorage with three turboprop planes, freeing up the jets to be used for new routes between Anchorage and the Lower 48.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Coast Guard hearings on Kulluk grounding conclude; report due in July

Two weeks of U.S. Coast Guard hearings on the grounding of Shell’s drillship Kulluk concluded Thursday. A report on conclusions of the inquiry is due in early July, but that deadline may be extended, Coast Guard Lt. Commander Brian McNamara said.

Tim Bradner, Alaska Journal of Commerce

Uncertainty remains over fuel as cause of engine failures

During the final afternoon of the Coast Guard’s hearing regarding the Dec. 31, 2012, grounding of the Kulluk drill rig, a skipper from the tow vessel pulling the drilling unit said its fuel came from Delta Western Inc.

Molly Dischner, Alaska Journal of Commerce

Kulluk report due in July as hearings end

Capt. Jon Skoglund, master of the tow ship Aiviq, testifies on May 30 in Anchorage during the formal marine casualty hearing into the grounding of Shell Oil’s drilling rig Kulluk on Sitkalidak Island on Dec. 31, 2012. The Coast Guard is expected to issue its findings in July.

Tim Bradner, Alaska Journal of Commerce

Ketchikan shipyard business grows

The development of Alaska Ship and Drydock in Ketchikan has been more than 30 years in the works.

Elwood Brehmer, Alaska Journal of Commerce

Era Alaska unveils UA-themed aircraft

Bulletin 06/09/13

Journal of Commerce staff

Coast Guard panel questions fuel, crew training and engine operations

The U.S. Coast Guard inquiry into the grounding of the Shell drillship Kulluk continued Friday, with questions on the overall management of the drillship and events that led up to the accident last Dec. 31.

Tim Bradner, Alaska Journal of Commerce