- Alaska’s Regional Port:
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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 16 "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
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