
6:07 - 6:45
"Tender Float 3 safety improvements, that also was brought up with the Aleutian Ballad."
“Tender Float 3 safety improvements, that also was brought up with the Aleutian Ballad.”
- Speaker
- Unidentified speaker
- Timestamp
- 6:07 – 6:45
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Ketchikan
- Captured at
- June 9, 2026
From the transcript
And put together a memo so you're, you know, you can see that in fact we're charging everybody that same rate that's a transient vessel. Okay. And then Tender Float 3 safety improvements, that also was brought up with the Aleutian Ballad. The first thing I did the next morning, I actually picked up the phone and I called P&D engineers down in Seattle. They were involved in putting that Berth 3 tender float in.
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