After Multiple Delays, Unalaska's City Dock Is Open For Business
Update: 2019-01-15
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After multiple delays, the new city dock is open for business. The renovation of positions 3 and 4 at the Unalaska Marine Center met substantial completion Monday. “We can schedule it," said Ports Director Peggy McLaughlin. "It’s completely available for cargo operations, fishing vessel offloads, fueling, tying alongside, transfers of whatever might be required. We’re good to go.” Construction on the $39 million project began in June 2017 and McLaughlin said is still within budget. Having the dock renovation completed she said is huge. “One of the things we’ve always struggled with is the timing of being able to work all the vessels that require goods put on, fishing products taken off, container operations, and fueling operations," McLaughling said. "[It was hard] juggling all that where we didn’t have uplands support. Now we have a place for people to stage their stuff going on the ship or to put containers to pull products off their vessels.” In the past, McLaughlin said there was a
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