At the ribbon cutting for Seward’s new cruise ship terminal, Exit Glacier Greenhouses won the inaugural $20,000 prize in Royal Caribbean’s Port Partners small business accelerator program.
The revitalized Seward Cruise Ship Terminal is designed as Alaska’s largest turn port, where passengers begin or end a voyage and ships are fully reprovisioned.
The US Small Business Administration’s Small Business Person of the Year for Alaska is the owner of Firebrand BBQ in Seward.
Royal Caribbean’s Port Partners program aims to support small business development in Seward, where a new cruise ship terminal is being built.
Trina Bailey, an experienced fundraiser and public affairs strategist, becomes Alaska SeaLife Center’s Vice President of Advancement.
Lawmakers finished an operating budget and enacted new legal frameworks for childcare, interior design, and big game hunting.
After a veto on a technicality last year, Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed legislation extending the Alaska Railroad’s bond authority to $135 million for a new Seward Cruise Terminal.
The Alaska SeaLife Center hired Brad Ryan, an environmental research scientist and former Haines Borough Manager, as Executive Vice President/Deputy Director.
The cruise terminal being built in Seward gets $45.7 million to plug ships into shore power, and the Don Young Port of Alaska gets funds for energy planning.
Chugach Regional Resources Commission gets $3.1 million in federal funds to create jobs in the marine research and mariculture fields.