Dock updates could interrupt ferry service to Skagway

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Could Skagway go three months without ferry service?

The Alaska Department of Transportation is planning a $6 million ferry dock refurbishment that would ideally happen this winter. The project would take the dock out of commission for a few months, which DOT says could leave Skagway without marine highway service.

But DOT and the municipality are trying to work out a solution so that doesn’t happen.

Emily Files is a reporter at KHNS in Haines.

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