Alaska Marine Lines Inc.

Alaska Marine Lines Inc., a Seattle-based subsidiary of Lynden Inc., operates as a prime contractor providing ocean and intermodal cargo transportation services to the Department of Defense and federal agencies, competing full-and-open with no set-aside designations across a 587-award portfolio valued at $4.35 billion. The company specializes in deep-sea and coastal freight transportation to Alaska and remote regions, with expertise in consolidated shipments of materiel, ammunition, explosives, vehicles, and general freight via regularly scheduled commercial liner service and barge operations.

Alaska Marine Lines' customer concentration is heavily weighted toward defense logistics. The top five funding agencies account for 87% of awards by count, led by the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard (328 awards, $357 thousand combined potential value), followed by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (78 awards, $310.4 million), the Office of the Secretary of Defense (68 awards, $4.3 million), the Department of the Air Force Air Mobility Command (25 awards, $21.6 million), and the Department of the Air Force (13 awards, $4 billion). The dollar concentration diverges sharply from award count: the Air Force dominates potential value at $4 billion through a single contract vehicle, while SDDC anchors the majority of task order activity across delivery orders averaging mid-to-high six figures. The Coast Guard's large award count reflects discrete small-dollar purchase orders for point-to-point cargo moves, primarily intra-Alaska.

Alaska Marine Lines holds positions on five parent contract vehicles. The Ocean and Intermodal Cargo Transport 2019 IDIQ carries 52 task orders valued at $16.9 million combined. The Universal Services Contract 10 (USC-10), a $4 billion multiple-award IDIQ awarded by USTRANSCOM on September 1, 2024, and extending through August 31, 2026, carries 19 task orders to Alaska Marine Lines valued at $3.9 million combined — approximately 14 delivery orders issued since the contract award in September 2024, ranging from $22,533 to $1.1 million, for consolidated transportation to Alaska, Washington, Hawaii, and other states with primary performance in Seattle. USTRANSCOM Sealift Cargo Transportation 2011-2014 and USTRANSCOM Universal Service Contract-8 also appear as parent vehicles with 49 and 35 task orders respectively. Award activity has remained relatively steady year over year — 9 awards in 2022, 14 in 2023, 16 in 2024, 12 in 2025, and 3 recorded through February 2026 in the snapshot.

Alaska Marine Lines' capability portfolio centers on fixed-price ocean freight with economic price adjustment provisions, supporting the Defense Transportation System's global logistics operations. Recent representative work includes a $1.1 million Air Force delivery order in August 2025 under USC-10 for consolidated transportation shipments to Wayne, Pennsylvania; a $802 thousand SDDC delivery order in August 2024 under Ocean and Intermodal Cargo Transport 2019 for materiel and general freight to Alaska; a $903 thousand Army Pacific Command purchase order in July 2021 for barge services supporting road construction in Old Harbor, Alaska; and a $1.035 million Army Pacific Command definitive contract in June 2022 for barge services (OLD HARBOR IRT - BARGE TY22) with performance in Honolulu, Hawaii. The company also executes discrete point-to-point moves — a $6.7 thousand Coast Guard purchase order in August 2023 to move a government vehicle from Kotzebue to Anchorage, a $6.2 thousand Transportation Security Administration purchase order in June 2023 for vehicle barge transport from Anchorage to Barrow, and a $4.1 thousand Coast Guard purchase order in January 2026 for a 40-foot flat gate shipment from Sitka to Ketchikan, Alaska.

Alaska Marine Lines operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Lynden Inc., a multimodal transportation and logistics provider headquartered in SeaTac, Washington. Lynden holds multiple major IDIQs in its own name, including a $4 billion Air Mobility Command contract (HTC71124DW001) for ocean and intermodal cargo transportation and a $1.5 billion global heavyweight delivery IDIQ, positioning the parent enterprise as a strategic transportation partner across the Defense Transportation System. Alaska Marine Lines Inc. competes in the commercial vessel-operating market and holds NAICS 482111 (Deep Sea Freight Transportation) as its primary classification across 428 of its 587 awards, with secondary exposure in coastal and great lakes freight transportation and other motor vehicle support services.