Alaska’s location has made it prominent in discussions about the development of Arctic shipping.
Tschudi Shipping is to explore the possibility of establishing a transshipment port in western Alaska, Lt Governor Mead Treadwell said.
Tschudi wants to establish a location to serve as an intermediate or transshipment site for goods and commodities shipped to and from Scandinavia and Europe via its port facilities in Kirkenes, Norway along Russia’s Northern Sea Route and through the Bering Strait bound for Pacific US, Alaska or Far East ports.
Treadwell said the collaboration on a potential Alaska transshipment port location is a direct result of the Dept. of Commerce effort. He said Tschudi joins other European ports in Norway, Iceland, and Germany that have expressed an interest in cooperation with Alaska ports.