At its peak in 2011, Alaska exported 1.1 million tons of coal — or 18 ships’ worth — annually.
The Seward Coal Terminal, built in 1984, has sat idle just outside the Seward boat harbor since 2016.
“There simply wasn’t the global business to justify continuing with the operation at that time,” said Meghan Clemens, a spokesperson for the state-owned Alaska Railroad Corporation, which owns the Seward loading dock. With the coal loading infrastructure gone, it’s unlikely the mine or the railroad ever reinvests in coal exports, said University of Alaska Fairbanks energy historian Philip Wight.
Around the world, coal has been increasingly replaced by natural gas. Wight said since the 2010’s, countries in Asia have imported more liquefied natural gas, or LNG.
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