Ferry storage costs close to a half-million dollars

The M/V Chenega undergoes repairs in drydock at the Ketchikan Shipyard in 2014. (Photo by Heather Bryant, KTOO – Juneau)The Alaska Marine Highway System is paying more than $1,200 a day for long-term storage of two unused ferries.
One critic says it would be better to sell them than to tie them up.
The state has awarded contracts totaling more than $450,000 to tie up the ferries Taku andChenega for the next year.
The ferry system already docks a number of ships each winter when lower passe