Inside Alaska industry: facts and figures from media around the state.

• Author: Woodring, Jeannie

Transportation

Flight of the Condor. Condor, the charter subsidiary of Lufthansa, landed its first charter flight from Frankfurt at the Anchorage International Airport on May 31. The weekly flights, running until Sept. 10, could bring up to 3,400 tourists to Anchorage each summer.

Condor is now the second carrier to offer charter service to Anchorage, following Swiss Air, which inaugurated summer flights between Zurich and Anchorage last year.

Harbor Buoys Juneau. When A.J. Associates announced plans to build a new $6 million, 200-slip commercial barge and ship harbor in Juneau, everyone jumped aboard the idea. After Gov. Wally Hickel expressed interest in the idea, legislators coughed up $3 million, enough to complete the first phase of the plan, and Juneau leaders praised the harbor as a way to employ some of the workers laid off from the Greens Creek mine.

A.J. Associates already has preliminary plans and permits in place, so the project could begin this summer -- if the idea passes state and municipal review and secures adequate funding.

Timber

Chugach May Get Axed. The Chugach National Forest is on the U.S. Forest Service's list of national forests to be phased out of commercial timber sales by 1998. A total of 62 national forests made the cut list after being identified as below-cost forests.

The Chugach National Forest produced 5 million board feet of timber in 1992, compared to 130 million feet produced by private forests around Alaska.

Big Buyout on Afognak. With $38.7 million, the Exxon Oil Spill Settlement Trustee Council will buy 42,000 acres of land on Afognak Island from its Native corporation owners. The move will close logging at Seal Bay, on the northeast corner of Afognak.

Laws for Logging. A new set of logging regulations from the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, known as the Forest Practices Act, became law on June 10. The rules sets up no-logging zones alongside salmon streams on private and state land, and also regulates other areas like road and bridge standards and water quality.

Fishing

Tax on Trawlers. A new bill from the Alaska State Legislature calls for a 3.3 percent tax on pollock, cod and other fish caught in Alaska waters and transferred to off-shore processors. The tax could bring the state up to $9 million a year...