Alaska Marine Lines Inc.

Alaska Marine Lines Inc., a Seattle-based subsidiary of Lynden Inc., is a vessel-owning ocean and intermodal cargo transportation prime contractor competing full-and-open (no set-asides) against federal agencies including the Department of Defense, the Department of the Army, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Coast Guard. The company transports materiel, ammunition, explosives, vehicles, and general freight via regularly scheduled commercial ocean liner service and barge to destinations in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, and other states, with primary performance in Seattle and secondary locations including Wayne, Pennsylvania and Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.

Alaska Marine Lines' customer concentration sits heavily with defense transportation and logistics customers. The top five funding agencies account for 87% of recent awards by count, dominated by the Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard (329 awards, $379 thousand combined potential value) and the Department of the Army Materiel Command Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (78 awards, $310.4 million combined potential value). However, the potential-value ranking reveals a stark divergence: the Department of the Air Force anchors the portfolio with 14 awards carrying $4 billion combined potential value, driven by the award of the Universal Services Contract 10 (USC-10), a $4 billion multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity vehicle issued by USTRANSCOM on September 1, 2024, running through August 31, 2026. The Air Mobility Command has issued approximately fourteen delivery orders under USC-10 to Alaska Marine Lines since award, with individual task order values ranging from roughly $22,500 to $1.1 million and cumulative delivery order value through October 2025 reaching approximately $3.6 million. Recent representative work under USC-10 includes delivery orders valued at $290 thousand (November 2025), $184.9 thousand (September 2025), and $1.1 million (August 2025) for consolidated transportation shipments coordinated by decentralized Air Force ordering officers. Beyond USC-10, Alaska Marine Lines places task orders under the Ocean and Intermodal Cargo Transport 2019 IDIQ (52 task orders, $16.9 million combined potential value), USTRANSCOM Sealift Cargo Transportation 2011-2014 (49 task orders, $4 million combined potential value), and USTRANSCOM Universal Service Contract-8 (35 task orders, $19.6 million combined potential value). Recent Coast Guard work includes a $22,283.98 firm fixed-price purchase order (August 5, 2026) for round-trip maritime transportation of a compression chamber and equipment from Seattle to Juneau, Alaska, with vessel ownership required and freight brokers prohibited, and a $4,098.30 purchase order (January 9, 2026) for shipment of a 40-foot flat gate from Sitka to Ketchikan.

Alaska Marine Lines competes predominantly full-and-open without set-aside designations across its prime footprint. Award volume has remained moderate to flat over the past five years — 9 awards in 2022, climbing to 16 in 2024, then declining to 12 in 2025 and 6 in 2026 (through August) — reflecting the episodic nature of vessel chartering and intermodal transportation work. The combined potential value across all 590 awards reaches $4.35 billion, though only $51.4 million (1% of potential value) has been obligated to date, signaling that much of the portfolio consists of task orders issued under large master IDVs carrying high ceilings relative to actual invoicing. The company operates across deep sea freight transportation (NAICS 483111, 429 awards) and coastal and great lakes freight transportation (NAICS 483113, 12 awards), with vessel freight and marine charter as the primary PSC categories. Alaska Marine Lines subcontracts minimally — only 1 sub-award appears in the source data (a $281 thousand sub under North Point Defense Inc. for battery analysis work). As a subsidiary of Lynden Inc., a multimodal transportation and logistics enterprise holding multiple major defense transportation IDVs valued in the billions, Alaska Marine Lines inherits significant parent-company leverage in the consolidated ocean and intermodal transportation market, positioning the subsidiary as a critical logistics partner for DoD and agency cargo movements in remote and challenging geographic environments.