“The system is in a really vulnerable place, right now,” said Shirley Marquardt, president of the Alaska Marine Highway Operations Board.
This photo from 2014 shows Capt. John Falvey, General Manager of the Alaska Marine Highway System sitting with Doug Ward of the Ketchikan shipyard and Troy Tacker of the shipyard , talking about the two new ferries that the shipyard was building for the state.
Commissioner Anderson said they will be “aggressively” looking for Falvey’s replacement over the next month through a national search. They did not have a job description ready at the time of the board meeting. Falvey has served through five Alaska governors’ administrations. He was appointed as AMHS general manager in 2004 by then-Gov. Frank Murkowski. Before that, Falvey worked for 27 years in commercial shipbuilding, and in ocean-class vessel and fast ferry operations, including crew management. He graduated from the Maine Maritime Academy in 1976.
“He worked through quite a bit of financial and political chaos, which is normal, everyone has to do it, but he did that for 20 years,” Marquardt said. “Your time at AMHS is greatly appreciated by thousands and thousands of Alaskans.”
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