BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 14, 2020
Portland’s approval of a $30 million cold-storage facility in the city’s West End could make Maine a major hub for frozen food shipped between Europe and the U.S., the Portland Press Herald reported. The city planning board’s 6-0 vote on Tuesday will allow the Icelandic cargo hauler Eimskip to store up to 20,000 pallets of food at a high-tech refrigerator warehouse to be built on Commercial Street. Some 80 West End residents opposed the project. They questioned the wisdom of using waterfront space “for more than a hundred million pounds of frozen peas and pizza, chicken nuggets and corn-dogs and not for fresh locally caught bait fish.”