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The Alaska Marine Highway System operates along the south-central coast of the state, the eastern Aleutian Islands and the Inside Passage of Alaska and British Columbia, Canada. Ferries serve communities in Southeast Alaska that have no road access, and the vessels can transport people, freight, and vehicles.
The ferry system, taking advantage of her ocean-going status, sends the vessel on a monthly trans-Gulf of Alaska ("cross-gulf") voyage beginning in Juneau and concluding in Kodiak. On this voyage, the Kennicott is able to provide service to the isolated Gulf of Alaska community of Yakutat and is the only vessel to do so. The cross-gulf voyages ...
AMHS passenger and vehicle ferry, MV Tustumena, at the public dock in False Pass, Alaska Because of the exposed and unstable parts of Alaska it plies, the Tustumena is an accredited ocean-going vessel, a quality it shares exclusively with the Kennicott .
Today, it operates just six ferries, down from its high of 11 a decade ago. Ridership has fallen off steeply. At its peak, the state's publicly owned ferries carried upward of 400,000 Alaskans and ...
The M/V Columbia is a mainline ferry vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway System.. M/V Columbia at Bellingham Cruise Terminal. Constructed in 1974 by Lockheed Shipbuilding in Seattle, Washington, the M/V Columbia has been the flagship vessel for the Alaska ferry system for over 40 years.
] Beginning in September 2020, the terminal has also been home to a temporary ferry to Point Roberts, providing alternative access amid the COVID-19 pandemic and closure of the Canadian border. [11] The cruise ship terminal is located adjacent to the Fairhaven train station, which is served by Amtrak's regional Cascades service.
The MV Wickersham was a mainline ferry vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway. Wickersham was the second vessel, after the MV Chilkat, in the Alaska Marine Highway fleet to not have been constructed specifically for AMHS, but was rather acquired for from the Stena Line, where it was known as the Stena Britannica and served the Kiel, Germany–Gothenburg, Sweden route.
Alaska Marine Highway System vessels (1 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Alaska Marine Highway" ... 2019 Alaska ferry workers' strike; A. Auke Bay Ferry Terminal; H.