The Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce issued a plea to its members Friday, asking for written testimony in regard to one barrier to resuming cruise ship tourism into the community sooner rather than later. This hurdle reaches beyond the chamberâs membership to all in Alaska and the prospective visitors and cruise lines that have called or desire to come here. The Legislature has before it Senate Joint Resolution 9, which asks Alaskaâs congressional delegation to encourage Congress and President Joe Biden to waive aspects within the Passenger Vessel Services Act to allow the mostly foreign-flagged ships to dock at Alaskaâs ports following departures from the Lower 48. Currently, the ships arenât allowed to call here without first touching a foreign port, and the British Columbia ports of Vancouver and Victoria are the stops for most of the cruise ships sailing in Southeast Alaska.