Sunday, December 29, 2024

A Maersk update

Unalaska's city manager, in a memo for Monday's special city council meeting, advises the following:

Maersk intends to pull operations out of our community by February 2025. I received confirmation about the matter via various channels. I also learned that America's Finest may move operations from the Light Cargo Dock to trampers in the bay. The discussion I'm hearing is that CMA should pick up the Maersk cargo. The America's Finest news is related to Maersk. We anticipate most of the revenue will still come in due to the fish tax, however we will lose wharfage and tariff at the city docks.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

America's commercial cargo fleet is almost extinct. No nation has ever successfully ranked as a world naval power without also being a global maritime power. After Dutch Harbor was bombed in 1942, the U.S. commercial marine fleet accounted for about half of the world's shipping capacity. Today it's less than 1 percent. America's Finest?