M/V Susitna arrives in the Philippines

The Alaska ferry M/V Susitna arrived safely at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone in the Philippines on Friday, according to local news sources. The vessel was sold by the Matanuska-Susitna Borough to the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) in June.
PRC paid $1.75 million for the M/V Susitna, which cost around $80 million to build. According to the Mat-Su Borough, the U.S. Navy paid for much of it as a smaller scale military prototype, and the borough obtained $12.3 million in additional federal funding from th