The Alaska Marine Highway System’s proposed schedule for summer 2012 would homeport the Malaspina in Juneau instead of Skagway, a move resident Robert Venables said would hurt Haines businesses.
Venables, a Marine Transportation Advisory Board member, said the Malaspina’s overnight stays in Skagway provide “quite some extra economic benefit” to Haines.
“It forces folks who are coming in (to Haines) late to, generally, spend the night, and those who want to leave early in the…
