...days if the bid passes muster. If the company gets the contract, Derecktor will build the vessels and the London firm Nigel Gee & Associates will design them, he said. Under phase one of the contract, the winner will first build the Juneau-Sitka...

...68 million contract to build the Chenega and its sister ship, the Fairweather, which will serve Sitka and Juneau. Nigel Gee Associates of Southampton, England, designed the fast ferries. The shipyard is about half done building the Fairweather...