Passengers jump off of a bus and headed down Haines' cruise ship dock toward a nearby Holland America cruise ship on Wednesday, July 24, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. About 150 people, primarily cruise ship passengers who had disembarked in Skagway, were trapped by a landslide in Canada and then bussed several hundred miles to Haines to rejoin their cruises. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Passengers jump off of a bus and headed down Haines’ cruise ship dock toward a nearby Holland America cruise ship on Wednesday, July 24, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

An active cruise-dock management bid in Haines is just one Alaska venture for now-familiar Global Ports Holding. The company’s other regional business could give it the means, and incentive, some say, to bring more passengers to Haines. 

Through the last year, as Global…

Will Steinfeld is a documentary photographer and reporter in Southeast Alaska, formerly in New England.