b'APRIL 19 - MAY 9, 2021PACIFIC COAST PORTS21(SURGEcontinued fromCorporations newest 11,000 page 20) twenty-footequivalentunit 18 is example of the spillover(TEU) vessel, made its maiden fromcongestioninSouthernvoyage to North America, call-Californianports. Nasia,theing at Terminal 18 in the Seattle first vessel of Wan Hai LinesHarbor on March 26 as part of newservice,calledTerminalTHEAlliancesPN3service. 18 on Monday, April 5, 2021.The YM Target is one of Yang Thenew,independentAA5Mings new T-class level ves-service calls Seattle with a firstsels. At 1,089 feet long and 157 port of call and provides directfeet wide, the YM Target has connections from Asia to theanominalcapacityof12,690 PacificNorthwest,reduc- TEUsandisequippedwith ingimporttransittimesand1,000 reefer plugs.increases loading options.Theupsizedvesselwill The service was announcedbring added container capac-Project cargo is an important component of Lyndens business and thats changed as well over the past year. inFebruarywhenWanHaiitytotheservice.ThePN3 Lines revamped its services toservicerotation,whichpro-providecomprehensivecover- vides direct connections and Lynden helps deliver critical vaccines andagethatmeetsgrowingcus- fasttransitfromAsia,calls tomerdemandinthePacificHongKong-Yantian-Shang-supplies to far flung Alaskan communities Northwest.Theservicecallshai-Busan-Vancouver-Seattle Kaohsiung-Yantian-Shang- (NWSA)-Busan-Kaohsiung-By Matt Miller, AJOT hai-Ningbo-Seattle-Oakland- Hong Kong. Two T-class ves-Kaohsiung.sels are already operating in AsthedominantfreightTheprivatelyownedcom- top100truckersintheUS,AnditisntjustnewTHE Alliances PN2 service transportoperatorin Alaska,pany also operates a regularwithrevenuesin2020justservicecallsbutalsovesselthatservesSoutheastAsia Lynden has decades of expe- barge service from Seattle to(CRITICALcontinued onupgrades.TheYMTarget,andYantianandcallsthe riencefiguringouthowtoHawaii.Itranksamongthepage 22) Yang Ming Marine TransportTacoma Harbor.delivergoodstofar-flung townsinvillagesspreadout over vast territory. Thats cen-teredonmulti-modaltrans-portplanes, barges, trucksbut also includes the recent developmentofsuchnovel kinds of carriers as the Pisten-bullySnowcat.(Moreabout that in a bit.)andWiththeCOVID-19vac- SPEED TO cine, distributing whats needed necessaryhastakenon criticalsignificance.Lynden givesunquestionedprece- MARKETdence to delivery of the vac-cinesfromAnchorageto remotelocationsinwestern Alaska,alongwithpersonal protectiveequipmentfor those administering the shots. Othercargohasbeen managedaroundtheprior- LOWER ityofthevaccines,said Jon Burdick, Lyndens CEO and president, in a telephone interviewwithAmericanCOSTJournalofTransportation. Were faced daily with pri-ority moves, but in this case, itslife-criticalandcommu-nity-critical,sosupporting community health is an oppor- Experience proves cargo shipped from Asia through tunity to give back and we arethe Seattle+Tacoma gateway gets there faster. Let grateful for that opportunity. us show you the difference less congestion, efficient Despite its geographic chal- multimodal operations, and best-in-class customer lenges, Alaska has tallied onecare can mean to you. When time to market is ofthisnationsbestrecordscritical, choose The Northwest Seaport Alliance. NWSeaportAlliance.comforvaccinedistribution.It rankedfifthasofApril11, fullyvaccinating26.64%of its 731,000 populace. Were proudtoplayasmallrole inhelpingtodistributethe vaccinestoremotecommu-nities,saidBurdick,who has been with Lynden for 40 years,andstartedwiththe company right out of college.Lynden is based in Seat-tle, WA, and Anchorage, AK, and provides services in the northwestern US, as well as suchfarafielddestinations as South Sudan. But at least halfitsbusinessiscentered in Alaska, business the com-panystartedmorethan60 years ago when it became the first truck operator with ser-vice on the Alcan Highway.'