{"id":18148,"date":"2016-04-13T08:06:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/additional-work-to-delay-tustumena-return\/"},"modified":"2016-04-13T08:06:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:06:51","slug":"additional-work-to-delay-tustumena-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/additional-work-to-delay-tustumena-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Additional work to delay Tustumena return"},"content":{"rendered":"

KETCHIKAN \u2014<\/strong> The state ferry Tustumena\u2019s return to service for the Alaska Marine Highway System has been delayed one week because of additional repairs at the Ketchikan Shipyard.<\/p>\n

The ferry is scheduled to return to service on May 27. Sailings from May 15-26 have been canceled, according to DOT, including its first Aleutian Islands routes in the system\u2019s 2016 summer schedule.<\/p>\n

The Tustumena, the fourth vessel added to the system\u2019s fleet, is in Ketchikan for its annual overhaul, according to a Monday announcement from the Alaska Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n

As the ferry system fleet ages, it\u2019s routine for additional work to be \u201cdiscovered,\u201d as DOT and shipyard officials have put it, once crews begin inspecting and working on a vessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KETCHIKAN \u2014 The state ferry Tustumena\u2019s return to service for the Alaska Marine Highway System has been delayed one week because of additional repairs at the Ketchikan Shipyard. The ferry is scheduled to return to service on May 27. Sailings from May 15-26 have been canceled, according to DOT, including its first Aleutian Islands routes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18148","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18148"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}