Last month, the state development agency said it would kick Vigor out of the Ketchikan Shipyard. Now, AIDEA and Vigor say ...

If you love traveling to remote locations, this small Alaskan island town located on a volcanic rock and surrounded by ...

The Columbia, a mainliner in the Alaska Marine Highway System, docked in Skagway in early March. The state is again exploring ...

Alaska’s state development agency is ending a two-decade partnership with the operator of the Ketchikan Shipyard, throwing ...

AIDEA said Vigor Alaska had underutilized the facility and failed to invest enough in repairs, maintenance and upgrades. The ...

A proposed 20-year plan seeking to restore the ailing Alaska Marine Highway System to a more reliable and sustainable ...

The state ferries carried just over 185,000 passengers and about 65,000 vehicles last year on its routes stretching from ...

Passenger and vehicle traffic aboard the Alaska Marine Highway System moved slightly higher in 2024 from 2023, but still is less than half its peak from the early 1990s. The state ferries carried just ...

There is much work to do, and the combined DOT&PF and Alaska Marine Highway System teams are focused and actively improving the ferry system. It’s time to share the progress we’ve made and the path ...

Southeast Alaska leaders want the Alaska Marine Highway System to be an economic lifeboat, but the badly damaged ferry system is twisting shorthanded through perilous waters strewn with icebergs ...

A new 149-passenger ferry designed by Incat Crowther has entered service in the Caribbean operated by Smith’s Ferry Services. The ferry is providing services on a tourist route between Charlotte ...