{"id":3643,"date":"2015-02-19T06:55:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T15:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2015-03-12T12:20:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T20:20:04","slug":"3643","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=3643","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Shipyard Constructs First Ferries Built In Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Shipyard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3644 alignleft\" title=\"Shipyard\" src=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Shipyard-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Alaska Shipyard Constructs First Ferries Built In Alaska\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Shipyard-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Shipyard-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Shipyard.jpg 1429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Construction of the Alaska Class ferries has commenced and is under way at the State of Alaska Shipyard in Ketchikan.\u00a0 Vigor Alaska, the operator at the shipyard reached a contract with the Department of Transportation to build the two new ferries.\u00a0 The ferries are steel hulled, powered by twin diesel engines, and 280 feet long.\u00a0 They can carry up to 300 passengers and 53 vehicles.\u00a0 \u201cThe foundation for success now took years of investment in shipyard infrastructure and accumulating $120 million in funds to build the boats.\u00a0 I am glad Vigor and the State found common ground and reached agreement.\u00a0 We kept economic development in Alaska with state dollars and increased the number of jobs at the shipyard by 67%.\u00a0 (100 jobs added to the existing 150 jobs at the shipyard).\u201d Said Senator Stedman.\u00a0 The new ferries are expected to be completed in 2018.\u00a0 \u201cWe are already working on a way to make sure Vigor gets the best reasonable opportunity to bid on the next new ferry, the M\/V Tustemena.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction of the Alaska Class ferries has commenced and is under way at the State of Alaska Shipyard in Ketchikan.\u00a0 Vigor Alaska, the operator at the shipyard reached a contract with the Department of Transportation to build the two new ferries.\u00a0 The ferries are steel hulled, powered by twin diesel engines, and 280 feet long.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3643"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3702,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions\/3702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}