COVID-19 is taking its toll on the state’s newly functioning ferry system.
Decreases in revenue from lost ticket sales could impact Alaska Marine Highway System operations in the coming months, and social-distancing measures designed to slow the spread of the disease will delay the return to service of three vessels: the Columbia, the
Kennicott and the Tustumena.
The vessels had been scheduled to resume service in mid-April and early May. In a press release Wednesday,…