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Veteran Lynden Drivers John Schank (left) and Fred Austin (right) behind the wheel
Almost 10 years ago, Lynden Transport was selected to carry the...
Alaska West Express had a busy summer with several heavy hauls for customers. According to Projects Manager Tim Glynn, drivers delivered a...
LNG tanks arrive at Prudhoe Bay’s West Dock after a month-long multi-modal journey from India.
An international Lynden move of two huge Liquefied...
Lynden is celebrating its 70-year anniversary of serving Alaska. In December of 1953, Glen Kok made a trial run to Fairbanks to survey the...
A winning bid for a highway and bridge construction project near Fairbanks in 1974 marked the beginning of Knik Construction Co., Inc., and the...
Earlier this year, Lynden worked with the University of Alaska in both Anchorage (UAA) and Fairbanks (UAF) to set up two separate scholarship funds...
The Alaska West Express team includes approximately 32 mechanics to keep equipment maintained and operating at its multiple locations. But there is...
The new Makani Loa barge features a design patterned after a style of artwork true to Hawaiian designs in tattooing, weaving and carving. Native...
Dan Pankowski, (left in both photos) Chase Foster (left) and Stephan Hill.
Alaska Marine Trucking offers a similar program to Lynden Transport’s Dock...
The 2024 Alaska Marine Lines Sockeye Classic took place in Dillingham, AK in January. The basketball tournament included 18 youth teams competing in...
Pictured is one of two new PistenBully snowcats on the way to its new home at Lynden Oilfield Services in Prudhoe Bay. Tacoma Driver Zack Mandelke...
The Fairbanks expansion project with dirt work in progress.
Alaska West Express has expanded its Fairbanks facility by 22 acres. "We are using nine...
When a mining customer asked for pink chalk for a mine blast in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Lynden Transport Logistics Coordinator...
Lynden has been a preferred carrier for Doyon, Limited for many years, so when the company needed assistance with its renewable energy improvements...
The Lynden concept of ‘All for One and One for All’ was on full display recently with an all-companies-on-deck project for a seafood customer running...
Alaska West Express is one of only 33 trucking companies in the nation to be accepted into the Safe Driver Apprenticeship Program (SDAP) through the...
Alaska West Express Service Center Manager Alex Clifford is pictured loading the first of 24 Tesla Megapacks headed to Chugach Electric in Anchorage....
The Cat 777 truck loaded at the Valdez yard.
Lynden companies have completed many projects for long-term customer NC Machinery, but the latest took...
Alaska Marine Lines and Lynden Logistics provided the shipping transportation for a container of used medical equipment and relief supplies from...
Alaska West Express Driver Jason Foit is pictured hauling bulk powdered cement from ABI Cement to the port expansion project in Anchorage for Condon...
New rail facility (left) and Northland Services employees, from left, John Emory, Bret Young and Jesse Owen.Alaska Marine Lines has launched a new...
U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy (pictured above left) visited Lynden Air Cargo’s Bethel location last month as part of a tour of bypass mail...
Lynden Oilfield Services wrapped up its 2023 season with record performance from the PistenBully Deadhorse team. “We have moved cargo for oil and gas...
Each year, Alaska Marine Lines and Alaska Marine Trucking donate the shipping of Girl Scout cookies from Seattle to Juneau to support the Girls Scout...
Alaska Marine Lines played a part in preparing the Polynesian Voyaging Society’s (PVS) launch of a circumnavigation of the Pacific starting from...
Over the unusually warm winter season, the Knik Construction team put in many hours on a short ice-road haul prepping for the next phase of...
Lynden companies worked together on an urgent shipment for a customer this winter. "This was a high-profile move," says Paul Friese, Vice President...
Last month, Alaska West Express was called upon to respond to a natural disaster. An Alaska Railroad freight train was heading into Anchorage early...
Loading the gondola bull wheel in Austria.
The Lynden team recently completed a mountain-top to mountain-top move for the Eaglecrest Ski Resort and...
Using trucks, barges, landing craft and plenty of ingenuity, Lynden transported 10 million pounds of frac sand from Bruderheim, Alberta to Prudhoe...
This Alaska Marine Lines barge was one of seven loaded in Seattle that delivered freight to the Red Dog Mine site in Kotzebue, AK this summer....
When Lynden Air Cargo carried the first fresh fish out of Bristol Bay in June, it kicked off another record-breaking fish season. According to...
photo caption: Alaska Marine Lines reefers arrive in Dutch Harbor.Alaska Marine Lines’ new refrigerated containers enter service just in time. This...
In what has become a tradition, Lynden Air Cargo Captain Pat Madland flew into Birch Creek, AK and invited some of the local kids to sit in the...
Erik Scott of Alaska Marine Trucking and the crew of the Bering Marine vessel Greta, pictured above, received special recognition from the American...
ConocoPhillips and the Alaska Trucking Association presented Alaska West Express with the 2021 Alaska Safe Truck Fleet of the Year Award in the...
Lynden was voted 1st place for the Best Cargo/Logistics provider category in the Alaska Business 2022 Best of Alaska Business awards, as voted by...
Knik Construction was recently awarded the Associated General Contractors' 2021 Certificate of Commendation for its excellent safety record and zero...
Lynden Transport recently wrapped up the final delivery for a year-long SpaceX project in Alaska. "The first two antennas were delivered to us in...
We're excited to announce that Alaska Marine Lines was voted a "Best of Juneau" gold winner. Juneau’s businesses are owned, managed and staffed by...
Lynden Air Cargo participated in two lifesaving projects this winter on opposite ends of the globe. Two flights were chartered to La Paz, Bolivia to...
The Iditarod sled dog race celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, and Lynden will be out in front as a major sponsor of the 2022 race. The...
Although all Lynden shipments are important, it's not every day that Alaska Marine Lines transports cargo used to build an evacuation bridge for an...
"We had a very good seafood year," says Tyler Maurer, Alaska Marine Lines Seafood Sales Manager. The 2021 fish season for Alaska Marine Lines and the...
Lynden Oilfield Services' fleet of three PistenBully snowcats have been hard at work in Prudhoe Bay this past winter. In an average week, the cats...
Congratulations to Lynden-sponsored racers and Knik Construction employees Richie Diehl (above right) and Pete Kaiser (left), taking first and second...
The combined talents of employees at Alaska Marine Lines, Alaska Marine Trucking and Alaska West Express were behind the successful move of four...
Lynden Transport's Fairbanks Account Manager Ken Hall received the George Nehrbas Volunteer of the Year Award for 2020 from the Fairbanks Chamber of...
Bode Hostetter is a huge fan of Lynden Air Cargo's C-130 Hercules aircraft. Knowing a charter would be visiting their remote Alaska village of...
Knik Construction Health and Safety Manager Dora Mae Hughes (above) was selected as a winner of the Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Alaska...
Lynden Air Cargo delivered a mobile medical facility, called "Clinic in a Can," to Western Alaska this fall bringing much-needed medical services to...
Summer months are the busy season for Knik Construction and, this year, crews wrapped up two projects in Bethel, AK. The Chief Eddie Hoffman Highway...
Four Alaska Marine Lines rail barges are getting new piping and ballast systems designed by marine industry leader Glosten with installation by ...
Lynden Oilfield Services equipment crossed tundra-covered public lands in Alaska this winter and spring to deliver critical infrastructure across the...
Lynden Transport is delivering materials for a project at Fort Wainwright military base near Fairbanks, AK this spring and summer. Drivers are...
Every fishing season, Alaska Marine Lines refrigeration mechanics (reefer techs) leave Seattle and make the journey north to keep Lynden's...
Lynden Transport Driver James Delowsky (right) hauled a modular building from Edmonton to Kaktovik, AK to serve as a classroom for students after the...
Lynden employees are stepping forward to meet the needs of customers, keeping the freight moving as Lynden companies have always done during...
Lynden companies showed their support to local organizations this winter in Alaska and California. Alaska Marine Lines Account Managers, Mike Morris...
Construction is under way for a new hydropower facility in Kake, AK and Alaska Marine Lines is supporting the project by transporting penstock pipe...
Soldotna Knik employees Pete Hoogenboom and Aaron Verba were on their way to a paving job in Whittier recently when they came across a head-on...
The 2019 Together Tree, an 18-foot Sitka Spruce harvested from Revillagigedo Island in Ketchikan, was transported to Juneau by Alaska Marine Lines...
Twenty years ago, NANA/Lynden Logistics Services, LLC successfully bid and took over the onsite trucking services for Red Dog Mine near Kotzebue, AK....
Lynden ranked fourth among all Alaska companies in Alaska Business Magazine's annual Top 49ers listing. Lynden employees attended the luncheon this...
This oversized process module was on its way to an oilfield at Prudhoe Bay via Alaska West Express. The trip required crossing the Chatanika River...
The Lynden Training Center recently conducted a six-day course in Kodiak for the Kodiak Fire Department. "We are extremely proud that the General...
A Lynden customer appreciation event in Valdez brought old friends together. Lynden Chairman Jim Jansen (far right) is pictured with Marie Blood,...
Over the 17 years that Lynden LogisticsSenior Account Executive Randy Main has been working with customers, he has handled many emergency shipments....
The Alaska Aviation Museum presented Lynden Chairman Jim Jansen with a Lifetime Achievement Award recently and inducted him into its Hall of Fame....
Knik Construction received both the Contractor of the Year and Distinguished Excellence Awards from the Alaska Department of Transportation Civil...
Alaska West Express received the 2018 Alaska Safe Truck Fleet of the Year Award from the Alaska Trucking Association (ATA) at its annual meeting in...
Lynden Transport, Alaska West Express, Lynden Logistics and Lynden Air Cargo, all part of the family of Lynden companies, received recertification as
A cross-town move from one REI store to another went off without a hitch thanks to Lynden Transport’s Anchorage team and experienced drivers.All...
Lynden is proud to congratulate Pete Kaiser for finishing first in the 2019 Iditarod race. Pete is an employee of Knik Construction, part of the...
Lynden Transport and Lynden Air Cargo recently completed a joint move with a customer to transport a generator valued at $1 million from Kenai to an...
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake rattled Anchorage at 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 30. Shortly after Alaskans were back to their routine in part due to how quickly ...
Alaska Marine Lines, an Alaska marine transportation company, is expanding its service from Seattle and Anchorage to the Arctic Region in 2019. ...
In May, Lynden Chairman Jim Jansen was honored with the Walter J. Hickel Award from Commonwealth North, Alaska's non-partisan public policy forum,...
Lynden Logistics' Anchorage crew has coordinated many charters, but rarely do they involve one of the world's largest commercial cargo aircraft, the...
Lynden Transport Driver Jack Sorensen was recently named the 2018 Alaska Truck Driver of the Year by the Alaska Trucking Association (ATA). Lynden...
In the photo right, Alaska West Express Driver (and 2017 Overall ATA Winner of the Truck Driving Rodeo) Brian Ambrose and his wife Jennifer wished...
Knik Construction's Pete Kaiser won his fourth consecutive Kuskokwim 300 title Jan. 21 in Bethel, AK. Joar Leifseth Ulsom arrived in second place...
Students on the Kenai Peninsula are riding in style thanks to new Apple Bus Company buses delivered via Alaska Marine Lines. "We moved 88 buses from...
Alaska Marine Lines was honored as a 2017 Philanthropic Business of the Year by the Juneau Community Foundation this fall. Alaska Marine Lines has...
A 92-year old Tin Lizzie joins the wide array of noteworthy cargo to ride in the hold of a Lynden Air Cargo Hercules. The vintage Model T was...
It's been a busy summer for Alaska Marine Lines' Dutch Harbor Service Center. The team recently handled the transport of a 60-ton rotor for Westward...
Elliott Anderson, Project Engineer for Knik at the Red Dog Mine Airport, is a recent graduate of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). He and...
Alaska Marine Lines stepped in to help the Bristol Bay Historical Society move a 1932 sailboat from Anchorage to Naknek for display in the...
Lynden Air Cargo's Susan Selzer joins Pete Kaiser and other employees who compete in sled dog races outside of work. Susan is a Senior Accounting...
Over land, air or sea, Lynden companies help the Girl Scouts of Alaska transport thousands of pounds of cookies each year for its annual fundraiser....
Alaska Marine Lines celebrated the launch of its newest barge, Skagway Provider, at a ceremony July 7 at Gunderson Marine in Portland, Ore. where the...
Through its worldwide network of international partners and sister companies serving Alaska, Lynden Logistics introduced a new service this spring...
Alaska Marine Lines and LTI, Inc. donated the transportation of a ceremonial totem pole from Bellingham, WA to Hoonah, AK for a June 4 dedication in...
Lynden companies are known for providing customers with the latest, most versatile equipment and a hydraulic platform trailer acquired by Alaska West...
Alaska West Express and Alaska Marine Lines recently completed a nine-month multimodal move of pipe skids and other freight for an oil pipeline...
After 30 years of service, Alaska Marine Lines’ Ketchikan barge ramp has moved to Petersburg. In its place is a new port cargo ramp constructed by...
For the fifth year, Fred Meyer, The Salvation Army Alaska Division and Lynden Transport teamed up to provide new coats for children throughout Alaska...
Lynden helped put smiles on a lot of faces in Fairbanks recently. Lynden Transport's Ken Hall and Alan Hoza of Alaska West Express assisted in...
Lynden Transport and Alaska Airlines Air Cargo were dual winners of the 2015 Prince William Sound Science Fisheries Achievement Award which...
Lynden companies have provided support to Alaska oil and gas customers for decades. A new Lynden business, Lynden Oilfield Services, was created...
For many years, Lynden Transport has supported the Tanana Valley Special Olympics in Fairbanks. "We appreciate that the Lynden family of companies...
For the fourth year, Fred Meyer is partnering with The Salvation Army Alaska Division and Lynden Transport to provide new coats for children...
Congratulations to John Schank, the Alaska Trucking Association’s Driver of the Year!
For almost 40 years – driving nearly 5 million miles – John...
Lynden Legend Lee Burgess came out of retirement to help at NANA/Lynden Logistics Services at Red Dog Mine for a few weeks. Lee began his career...
Last month, Alaskans for Litter Prevention and Recycling (ALPAR) recognized outstanding achievements in recycling and litter prevention for 2013....
Three dogs and 26 Lynden employees participated in the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk in October in Anchorage....
For 27 years, Alaska Business Monthly (ABM) magazine has created a list of Alaska's Top 49ers; the top revenue-generating Alaskan-owned and...
The Lynden family of companies is pleased to welcome Northland Services, a marine transportation company providing shipping between Seattle, Alaska...
Lynden Logistics' Chicago and Anchorage teams put together a charter move for the U.S. Coast Guard this summer to deliver radio equipment to various...
A massive D-10 was seen rolling into Fairbanks this summer atop an Alaska West Express lowboy. The Fort Knox Mine donated the 115,000-pound...
Lynden drivers were behind the wheel at the Alaska Trucking Association’s (ATA) 14th Annual Truck Driving Championships May 11 in Anchorage....
Last fall Alaska West Express transported this boat (left, below) from Palmer to Anchorage. At 24 feet wide, 80 feet long and 17 feet tall, the...
“What a team!” begins a letter from Drew McLaughlin of Marsh Creek, LLC to Chairman Jim Jansen. The letter goes on to praise Lynden Transport...
Long-time customer Nabors Drilling called on Lynden Transport earlier this year to move 72 loads for its rig “99” relocation project in the Kuparuk...
The 2013 Iditarod - the “Last Great Race on Earth” - officially starts today, March 2nd. Lynden is proud to be a sponsor of two of this year's...
“This project was a little out of the ordinary,” explains Lynden Transport Account Representative Matt Malone. Matt got a chance to display the...
Lynden Transport recently coordinated a multi-modal move from Anchorage to Prudhoe Bay to support the Olgoonik Project, the construction of a...
From a Taco Bell promotion in Bethel to Pitbull visiting Kodiak, Lynden has provided support for several high profile projects in Alaska this past...
Alaska West Express was trusted with a very important – and heavy – load recently. Driver Kenny Seipel hauled a 150,000-pound steam engine from the...
When he’s not working on the docks at Alaska Marine Lines in Seattle, Darius Sanidad is singing and dancing in The Git-Hoan Dancers, led by...
The folks at Taco Bell call it a “doozy of a story” and it is. Lynden companies are often called upon to make the impossible possible in Alaska and,...
These windmill blades, measuring 148 feet long, recently rode Alaska Marine Lines’ railbarge Fairbanks Provider from Seattle to Whittier. The...
Lynden Transport recently moved 14 vehicles from Fort Richardson to Fort Greely, AK, on short notice to support the training and deployment of a...
Lynden Transport and Alaska West Express drivers took the top three spots in the Alaska Trucking Association’s 13th Annual Truck Driving...
A sure sign of spring in Alaska is when the world-renowned Copper River Salmon season begins in mid-May. Alaska Marine Lines, along with other...
Something old and something new is an apt description for this newly constructed parlor car perched atop Alaska Marine Lines’ containers in the...
It’s become an annual tradition at Alaska Marine Lines’ warehouses in Seattle and Southeast Alaska: Thousands of cases of Girl Scout cookies arrive...
Lynden Transport Account Manager Sam Amato took the photo below during a project for customer Marsh Creek. Lynden moved 160-plus loads of...
“Shipping a dinosaur fossil halfway across Alaska is not something you do every day,” writes Patrick Druckenmiller, Curator of Earth Science at the ...
Each year, Lynden Transport partners with the Alaska Railroad to move huge blocks of ice from Fairbanks to downtown Anchorage for the annual Crystal...
Lynden is a proud sponsor of the 2012 Jr. Iditarod race in Alaska, this year beginning February 25th in Wasilla on Knik Lake. The 12 young mushers...
Lynden is known for supporting the communities where it does business and Lynden Transport got a chance to illustrate this last month by partnering...
Alaska Business Monthly magazine ranked Lynden Inc. #7 among Alaskan-owned and operated companies. Lynden provides 700 jobs in Alaska and almost...
Canadian Lynden Transport and Lynden Transport handled a move from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Edmonton, Alberta for customer Akita Drilling this spring....
After reviewing the performance of all transportation carriers it uses in the U.S., Toyota gave Lynden Transport the highest marks and named the...
Congratulations to Lynden Transport Account Manager Matt Malone and wife Kristen for their second place win in the Associated General Contractors ...
Lynden Air Cargo’s N403LC is shown here on one of the 81 aerial oil-dispersant missions Lynden flew in support of BP’s Deepwater Horizon response...
Alaska Business Monthly magazine and the Alaska State Chamber of Commerce ranked Lynden Inc. seventh among 40 Alaskan-owned and operated companies....
This 75,000-pound tubing spool is headed north on the Dalton Highway via Alaska West Express. According to Project Specialist Steve Willford, this...
Lynden Transport trucks have been rolling in and out of a construction site this summer hauling panels, joists and steel for a new fish hatchery...
Enhanced EZ Tracing and redesigned website puts customer in the driver’s seat
ANCHORAGE – Lynden Transport’s industry leading EZ Tracing system...
Good deeds sometimes go unnoticed, but not in Kenai, Alaska. The Kenai Chamber of Commerce awarded Lynden Transport's Soldotna Service Center with...
Alaska West Express received the Alaska Safe Truck Fleet Most Improved Award at the Annual Alaska Trucking Association (ATA) Safety Awards banquet...
There were plenty of teachable moments at Lynden Air Cargo this spring when a a high school aviation group from Chevak, Alaska, toured the...
Note: Alaska celebrated its 50th year of statehood in 2009.
Neither canceled flights nor snowstorms deterred Lynden in delivering a very special ...
A yellow Piper PA-20 hangs from the roof of the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center in Fairbanks, Alaska. The plane brings back fond...
Lynden is a proud sponsor of the Jr. Idiatrod Race in Alaska, this year beginning Feb. 27 in Wasilla. The young mushers travel from the starting...
Lynden Transport's Sam Amato guided NFL Hall of Famer Larry Csonka on a nine-day moose hunting trip this fall. The trip was taped for a future...
Recently Jenny Neyman, Editor/Publisher of The Redoubt Reporter, wrote an article about Lynden Transport's new terminal and our efforts to be...