Alaska-based Icicle Seafoods has filed a lawsuit against a US railroad company, alleging the rail line bungled a delivery of frozen Alaska pollock destined for Massachusetts.

Lawyers for Icicle Seafoods said in a lawsuit filed with a Washington state court last month that the BNSF Railway, the largest freight railroad network in North America, "failed to provide proper refrigeration as required during the transport and, as a result, the product was not in good order and condition by the time it arrived at destination on or about Dec.