Free Port Tours      

                     June 27th through August 29th, 2010

                     Call 343-6230 for recorded message 

PORT OF ANCHORAGE EXPANSION PROJECT audio slide show.

Cruise Ship Docks at POA

The "Amsterdam", a Holland America Cruise Ship docks at the Port of Anchorage.  The Cruise ship makes first of 9 Visits for the 2010 season on 5/24/2010.  Click on link for Audio Slide show.

Alaska’s Regional Port

Serves all of Alaska except the Southeast, including the major military installations, from Homer to the North Slope by means of rail, road and air cargo connections.

Has been designated by the Department of Defense as one of 19 "National Strategic Ports".

Provides 100% of the jet fuel to Elmendorf AFB and 80% to Ted Stevens International Airport.

Stages 100% of the exports of refined petroleum products from the state’s largest refinery in Fairbanks and facilitates petroleum deliveries from refiners on the Kenai Peninsula and in Valdez.

Generates direct and indirect employment opportunities for stevedores, truckers, railroaders, warehousemen, the oil land construction industries, the Finance-Insurance-Real Estate sector and a growing number of export-related jobs in petroleum products, forest products, mining and manufacturing.

Provides direct interties with the Anchorage International Airport for competitive supplies of jet fuel and the sea-air movement of cargo to Bush Alaska.

Offers the only active Foreign Trade Zone services presently available in Alaska.

Is poised to expand in direct response to demand from additional containerized cargo carriers, export-related industries such as mining industries, forest products and oil field module assembly/load-out support.

For more Port of Anchorage history and facts, and for the latest information on the Port's Intermodal Expansion Project, go to http://portofanchorage.org/