The Port of Anchorage is the most active port in the U.S. state of Alaska, through which 95% of all (non-petroleum) cargo in and out of Alaska passes. It is located just north of Ship Creek near downtown Anchorage on the Knik Arm of the Cook Inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
The Port of Anchorage began operations in September, 1961. 38,000 tons of marine cargo moved across its single berth during that first year. The Port of Anchorage was the only port in South Central Alaska to survive the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake. The Port has since expanded to a five-berth terminal providing facilities for the movement of containerized freight, iron and steel products, bulk petroleum and cement. The high water mark of Port operations occurred in 2005 when, for the first time, more than 5 million tons of various commodities moved across the Port's docks.

Towards that end, starting in 2003, the Port of Anchorage undertook an initiative to expand and modernize. If able to stay on schedule, by 2013 the Port will double in size and be a world-class Intermodal facility capable of not only better supporting its current tenants; but also poised to take advantage of growing opportunities being presented by changes occurring in the global shipping industry.