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Huna Totem has already created a cruise-based tourism industry in Hoonah. It’s now proposing to build a 1,200-foot dock to moor ships in Whittier at the picturesque head of Passage Canal, about an hour’s drive southeast of Anchorage.

The first cruise line has canceled at least some of its sailings to Alaska in 2021. Princess normally sends its first cruise ships to Alaska in late April.

Unlike the utility’s 17,000 regular electric customers, Hecla and Princess are interruptible; the utility can only sell Hecla and Princess power after regular customers’ demand is met.

The Coast Guard found that a combination of mechanical breakdown and human error caused the Princess Cruises ship to lose power as it tried to maneuver out of Juneau’s Gastineau Channel.

Carnival Corp. won’t be bringing any of its cruise ships to Alaska this season. That’s following Wednesday’s announcement that its subsidiaries Princess Cruises and Holland America Line had canceled all remaining Alaska voyages for 2020.

The 2,124-passenger Carnival Spirit was scheduled to make 22 trips to Alaska this summer. Half of the sailings were canceled last month. Monday’s announcement nixes the remaining 11.

Two cruise lines announced Tuesday that they’re canceling most of their Alaska sailings this summer and won’t operate their lodges and sightseeing buses in the state, as they continue to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

Princess Cruises will cancel all sailings until May 2020. Some trips already sailing will be cut short.

Juneau’s landfill managers say it took over 3.3 million pounds of trash from cruise ships in 2019, up from 1.8 million pounds in 2018. That concerns some in Juneau, since the landfill is expected to be full in 20 years.

A judge explained in court papers that the harm claimed by the three Alaskans and one Bahamian were general in nature and could’ve applied broadly to others in the region.