The Columbia will make voyages between Bellingham and major Alaska ports from October to mid-November before the Kennicott takes over the route for three weeks per month, swapping to service the Prince Rupert route for one week spanning from mid-November to early March.<\/p>\n
That’s according to the Alaska Marine Highway System’s proposed winter schedule now available for public review, the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities announced Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The public has the opportunity to submit written comments and special requests about the draft schedule spanning Oct. 1 to April 30 to the DOT&PF. The comment period is currently open and runs until July 12. AMHS will hold a public meeting for the Southeast Alaska region on Zoom at 10 a.m. July 13. The meeting can also be attended in person at the AMHS office in Ketchikan.<\/p>\n
According to Sam Dapcevich, spokesperson for the DOT&PF, users should expect “no dramatic changes and nothing super noteworthy — if anything it’s a little better than last winter.”<\/p>\n
The LeConte is scheduled to stop at Northern Panhandle ports from October to November before entering into overhaul come December through mid-March, with the Hubbard taking over the sailings during that period.<\/p>\n
More about the planned schedule can be viewed online at https:\/\/dot.alaska.gov\/amhs\/doc\/winter_considerations_2023.pdf<\/a>. Comments will be accepted through July 12, and can also be sent via email to dot.amhs.comments@alaska.gov<\/a> and faxed to 907-228-6873.<\/p>\n • Contact reporter Clarise Larson at clarise.larson@juneauempire.com or (651)-528-1807.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Public comments are being accepted through July 12. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":890,"featured_media":100583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[79],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-100582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-alaska-marine-highway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100582"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=100582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}