Condemned NOAA port in Alaska to get major makeover
Site will be home once again to veteran coastal survey vessel NOAA Ship Fairweather in Alaskan coastal waters. (Photo: NOAA)
The former homeport to one of the U.S. government’s oldest survey vessels is scheduled for a long-overdue makeover.
The Ketchikan, Alaska, port facility became home in 2001 to the Fairweather, a ship that belongs to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA is an agency under the Department of Commerce. The port was condemned after a failed 2008 inspection.
NOAA has awarded a contract to Ahtna Infrastructure & Technologies LLC for a project to revitalize Ketchikan port, with work likely beginning later this month.