AMHS extends bid period for 54 year old retired ferry
JULY 11, 2017 — Alaska broadcaster KRBD reports that the Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) is giving interested parties an extra week and a half to submit bids on the 54 year
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AMHS fast ferry completes successful repower
MAY 5, 2015 — Alaska Marine Highway System’s fast vehicle ferry Chenega has successfully completed two days of sea trials in Puget Sound after being repowered with four new MTU Series 4000
Vigor completes repower of AMHS ferry
AUGUST 29, 2014 — Naval architecture and marine engineering firm Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) reports that the repower of the M/V Columbia has been completed. EBDG provided design services and ongoing
EBDG awarded Staten Island Ferry design contract
AUGUST 4, 2014 — Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG), a leading naval architecture and marine engineering firm with offices in Seattle, New Orleans and Ketchikan, Alaska, has been selected by the New
Celebrating a milestone: EBDG marks 25th anniversary
MAY 17, 2013—Twenty-five years ago a group of employees from Nickum and Spaulding Associates (N&SA) decided to buy the company’s assets and launch what would become one of the most well known
AMHS developing IMO-mandated SEEMPs for three ships
APRIL 24, 2013 — Design Alaska, a Fairbanks-based architecture, engineering, and surveying firm; and Art Anderson Associates, its naval architecture subconsultant, were recently awarded a contract for the Alaska Marine Highway System
Susitna attracts just one bid
APRIL 1, 2013 — The $80 million multipurpose ferry Susitna attracted just one bid — for $751,000 — when the Matanuska-Susitna Borough opened bids for the vessel Friday, reports the Alaska Daily
“Maneuvering error” blamed in ferry impact with dock
JULY 12, 2012 — The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) and the Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) have concluded the internal investigation of a May 7, 2012 incident involving
Management of Washington State Ferries could be awarded to private contractor
A proposal by Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire to hand the state’s ferry system over to a regional ferry authority has died a quiet death in the state legislature. But what is
Op-Ed: The towing industry is green and getting greener
By Mike Breslin, Director – Safety and Sustainability, The American Waterways Operators America’s waterways have been called a natural superhighway system for the remarkable way our interconnected network of rivers and coastlines facilitates