Article: Interior Secretary Says Cordova, Alaska, to Get New Port.

By Tim Bradner, Alaska Journal of Commerce, Anchorage Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 17--Cordova will get a deep-draft port again, which will help local fishermen send their harvest to market and allow large cruise ships to dock.

The 1964 earth...uake raised the sea bottom on the approaches through Orca Inlet to Cordova's harbor by eight to 10 feet, eliminating access to the community by deep-draft vessels.

The community has been working for years on developing a new port, and now it is finally moving forward.

U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton announced Aug. 7 that the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs has issued a ...

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