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Serving Our Community

At Alaska Marine Lines, we believe in giving back to the communities where we do business. We proudly serve our home state and its residents by responding to emergencies, providing volunteers and financial support to local organizations and nonprofits, and by answering the call when we can use our unique skills to solve problems. Whether it’s sourcing and delivering chlorine to help stabilize a regional water system, delivering a ceremonial totem pole to a Tlingit village, or barging in supplies to build an evacuation bridge in an Arctic borough, we get involved, and we care.

Our continuous barge sailings from Seattle to Southeast Alaska provide a dependable lifeline to residents and kept businesses up and running during the pandemic. We make good on that promise each week – bringing essential supplies to our communities on time and on schedule.

Alaska Marine Lines frequently provides its equipment to transport materials for community projects and charitable efforts. Our vessels have transported Yellowstone bison to Alaska to diversify the Sitkalidak herd, and we sponsored and transported the Hokule’a canoe, escort boat and supplies from Seattle to Juneau for the Polynesian Voyaging Society’s circumnavigation of the Pacific. We sponsor youth sports teams and donate delivery of wrestling mats for the Soldotna Whalers, high jump mats for Homer High School’s track team – even a PistenBully grooming machine for the Nordic Ski Association of Anchorage. You’ll find Alaska Marine Lines field in Sitka, named in recognition for our part in its construction. Alaska Marine Lines was named the Philanthropic Business of the Year by the Juneau Community Foundation, and it received an Outstanding Contributor Award from the Alaskans for Litter Prevention and Recycling (ALPAR) for transporting recyclables from Alaska to Seattle.

Our employees know the people and places of Alaska matter. While serving our customers, we consider the ways we can use our tugs, barges, and landing craft to improve the lives of our fellow Alaskans. Wherever and whenever we sail, we proudly represent the people of our home state.

Alaska Marine Lines shipping modular units to Maui for FEMA project
Alaska Marine Lines delivered three barge loads of modular units to Maui for a FEMA project supporting the Lahaina fire rebuild efforts.
Iditarod Red Lantern
The Lynden family of companies are a major sponsor of the Iditarod sled dog race in Alaska, including the Red Lantern Award handed out to recognize the last musher to officially complete the race as a symbol of perseverance, grit, and determination.
Alaska Marine Lines Stebbins Charter
When a fire destroyed the village school and teacher housing in Stebbins, AK, Alaska Marine Lines provided charter barge service to the community with construction materials, furniture, and supplies in time to rebuild before the next school year began.
Ketchikan Baseball Field
AML donated transportation for approximately 40 containers of materials including sand, turf rolls, and pellet infill, for two baseball fields in Ketchikan.
Aloha Marine Lines Makani Loa Barge
The new Makani Loa barge features a design patterned after a style of artwork true to Hawaiian designs in tattooing, weaving and carving. Native Hawaiian artist Nicole Maka‘ahina‘alohilohi Jack created the design inspired by the vessel’s name, which means "grand wind."
Alaska Marine Lines helped donate pallets of bottled water to the community of Kake.
Alaska Marine Lines and Arrowhead Transfer teamed up to donate pallets of bottled water and shipped it to Kake to be distributed to homes in need of potable water.
Alaska Marine Lines shipped school buses to Alaska.
School buses for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District were driven to Seattle and loaded at the Alaska Marine Lines Seattle terminal for the voyage to Whittier.
Donated the transportation of the late Alaska Senator Ted Stevens statue.
Lynden companies donated the transportation of the late Alaska Senator Ted Stevens statue to Anchorage where it is now gracing the airport.
Donated transportation for the nonprofit youth wrestling club, the Soldotna Whalers.
Alaska Marine Lines and Lynden Transport donated the transportation of a container of wrestling mats to Soldotna, AK for use by the nonprofit youth wrestling club the Soldotna Whalers.
Alaska Marine Lines sponsoring the Polynesian Voyaging Society’s Moananuiākea Voyage
Alaska Marine Lines sponsored the Polynesian Voyaging Society’s Moananuiākea Voyage, which will circumnavigate the Pacific and take four years to complete. AML provided transportation of the Hōkūleʻa canoe, its escort boat, and supplies via barge from Seattle to Juneau.
Alaska Marine Lines transporting cases of water
Alaska Marine Lines, Lynden Transport and The Odom Corporation donated over 1,000 cases of water and transportation to the community of Nome to provide clean drinking water. The community was without drinking water due to freezing conditions and an aging water system.
Alaska Marine Lines sponsoring the Alaska Marine Lines Sockeye Classic in Dillingham
Alaska Marine Lines was the primary sponsor for the Alaska Marine Lines Sockeye Classic in Dillingham, AK tournament, which rotates between Naknek and Dillingham each year.