Southeast Conference workshops the future of the ferry system

Alaska Marine Highway System’s fast ferry Fairweather. (Photo by Skip Gray/KTOO)
Business and community leaders in Southeast Alaska are looking into how other ferry systems are operated around the world and a different way of managing Alaska’s ferries. The annual meeting of Southeast Conference in Petersburg in September focused on the first steps of a project to reform the state ferry system, find efficiencies and keep ferries running between coastal communities despite the sta