Deep-draft Arctic port study shelved for at least a year

Aerial view of Nome’s port. (Photo: Joy Baker/Nome Port Director)
A highly-anticipated study looking into a deep-draft Arctic port for Alaska is being shelved for at least a year by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers—due to what the Corps calls the changing economic picture of the Arctic.
The Corps of Engineers announced Monday a 12-month pause in the feasibility study for a deep draft Arctic port. That study put an expansion of Nome’s existing facil