No, Alaska Business isn’t packing up and moving anywhere, except in the sense that every Alaska business always strives
to move forward. And when the load must relocate, transportation and logistics providers get the job done. This issue of
Alaska Business spotlights every mode of transport, especially those that tie the state to its neighbors in Hawai’i and
the Pacific Northwest.
Alaska gets its name from the Unangax̂ idiom for the mainland—that is, land that is not an island. Although the state
might look like an island as an inset on some US maps, it is “a piece of the continent, a part of the main,” as John Donne
meditated. And just as no man is an island, entire of itself, neither is Alaska; connections to Outside supply and sustain the
state and its people.
On the edge of tomorrow, straddling the International Dateline, Alaska is also halfway to everywhere: the Air Crossroads of
the World, along the Great Circle of North Pacific shipping.
Now, if we could just get out-of-state deliveries to understand.
