{"id":9598,"date":"2016-06-06T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/officials-to-meet-with-engineers-monday-after-cruise-ship-hits-berth\/"},"modified":"2016-06-06T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T04:19:00","slug":"officials-to-meet-with-engineers-monday-after-cruise-ship-hits-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/officials-to-meet-with-engineers-monday-after-cruise-ship-hits-berth\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials to meet with engineers Monday after cruise ship hits berth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KETCHIKAN \u2014 <\/strong>Officials with the City of Ketchikan will have a better idea of how badly a Celebrity Cruises ship damaged Berth 3 after meeting with the engineers who inspected the structure on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Celebrity Infinity, when attempting to dock just before 2 p.m. Friday, scraped along part of the berth, causing one of the gangways to break off and puncture the ship\u2019s hull above the water line. The berth currently is unusable.<\/p>\n<p>Ketchikan Port and Harbors Director Steve Corporon said Sunday evening that city officials will meet with the engineers to go over their assessment on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Celebrity Infinity is a 965-foot, 91,000-ton ship that can hold 2,170 passengers, according to the company\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrity Cruises spokesman Owen Torres, in a Friday news release, said the ship struck the berth due to inclement weather, that the ship sustained scraping damage above the waterline and that there were no injuries on board.<\/p>\n<p>There were wind gusts of more than 40 mph Friday afternoon according to the National Weather Service\u2019s weather monitoring station at the Ketchikan International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The Infinity left Ketchikan around midnight Friday and continued on its course to Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Until Berth 3 is repaired, the port will have to go back to a pre-2007 style of operations, when there were only two berths, according to Corporon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe simple answer is that we\u2019re going to have to have them anchor out and tender (passengers) in,\u201d Corporon said on Friday. \u201cBack (pre-2007), there was a lot of tendering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ships will still be able to use berths 1, 2 and 4.<\/p>\n<p>The Island Princess was scheduled to dock at Berth 3 at 10 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This article first appeared in the Ketchikan Daily News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KETCHIKAN \u2014 Officials with the City of Ketchikan will have a better idea of how badly a Celebrity Cruises ship damaged Berth 3 after meeting with the engineers who inspected the structure on Monday. The Celebrity Infinity, when attempting to dock just before 2 p.m. Friday, scraped along part of the berth, causing one of [&hellip;]<\/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":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-9598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9598","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=9598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9598"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}