n Alaska’s North Slope, the terrain, climate, and remote setting can make movement of supplies, equipment, and other cargo challenging. Lynden’s diverse family of companies offers a comprehensive solution. Lynden enables North Slope customers to access multi-modal transportation and logistics services from a single source, so they can ship freight efficiently, seamlessly, and safely.

Lynden has a vast fleet of company-owned equipment, including trucks, barges, landing craft, hovercraft, Hercules aircraft, PistenBully snowcats, specialized equipment, and trailers and containers. Whether by land, sea, and/or air, customers can use Lynden’s transportation options to ship almost any size and type of cargo.

Lynden tailors execution strategies to customers’ budget and timetable while advocating this pragmatic philosophy: pay for the speed you need. “You tell us when it’s ready to ship and when you want it delivered, and we’ll figure out the rest,” says Jacob Harrison, Corporate Account Manager for Lynden Transport, part of the Lynden family of companies. “On any given day, we’re combining barge, truck, and air capabilities to move freight to the North Slope as efficiently and effectively as possible.”

On the North Slope, Lynden’s customers are primarily oil field related, but they also include construction companies and local communities. Lynden’s multi-modal transportation capabilities give customers the flexibility to move a small 1-pound box or massive 200,000-pound haul. “We don’t say no; we say how,” Harrison says. “If we can’t do it, we will partner with someone who can. Our goal is to design the best solution for customers and earn their trust for additional future projects.”

For instance, Lynden can haul on the highway up to 74,000 pounds legally on its five-axle equipment. With service centers in Fairbanks and Prudhoe Bay, Lynden designs equipment that is lighter and can carry more weight and volume. This reduces load counts while helping mitigate the limited availability of skilled truck drivers prepared for Haul Road conditions. “We work to be as efficient as possible; we continually push to improve,” Harrison says.

When customers require routine expedited delivery, Lynden QuickTrans service can provide the economy of truck freight with the speed of air. QuickTrans offers teamdriver highway service between the Seattle/Tacoma area and Prudhoe Bay, Fairbanks, and other key locations in Alaska.

Lynden companies have provided support to Alaska oil and gas customers for decades, and that assistance goes beyond just getting freight to the North Slope. Lynden Oilfield Services, based in Deadhorse, supports explorat ion, production, and oil field service companies. These critical services include support for drilling contractors, chemical suppliers, camps, construction, and various phases of resource activity. This entails water, fuel, and bulk liquid handling as well as handling materials in Lynden’s bulk tanks or on-site storage silos.

Additionally, Lynden supports customers with state-of-the-art, online tools that provide real-time, in-transit shipment updates. “We are always mindful of meeting customers’ needs and delivery dates,” Harrison says. “We are focused on serving Alaska.”