Lynden International Expands West Coast Sales and Operations

SEATTLE, Nov. 24, 2004 -- Lynden International, a full service air and ocean freight forwarder, opened a new Portland, Oregon, station on November 5th, and has added Juree Kim, account executive, to its Los Angeles sales team.

In Portland, Matthew Wetherbee, station manager, joins the Lynden family with 25 years of air transport industry experience, including 18 with Alaska Airlines. Wetherbee is flanked by Josh Hacker, operations supervisor, who also arrives from Alaska Airlines with over 10 years tenure in cargo operations.

To the company's Los Angeles office, Lynden welcomes Juree Kim, account executive. Kim has more than seven years experience as a national accounts manager in the telecommunications industry, recognized as a top performer and receiving numerous awards during that term.

Lynden International is part of the Lynden family of companies, whose combined capabilities includes domestic and international air forwarding, international ocean forwarding, trade show shipping, truckload and less-than-truckload transportation, scheduled and charter barges, intermodal bulk chemical hauls, scheduled and chartered air freighters, sanitary bulk commodities hauling, and multi-modal logistics.