Portland’s on-again, off-again container cargo shipping service is on again. An Icelandic company has signed a contract with the Maine Port Authority for container freight service to and from eastern Canada and Europe. Governor Paul LePage said Tuesday that an Eimskip ship will stop in Portland every 14 days, helping Maine’s agricultural, forest, and seafood industries. Eimskip will add Portland as a port of call at the end of March, replacing Norfolk, Va. As part of the arrangement, Eimskip is working with Pan Am Railways to offer rail access to North American markets.
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Eimskip's container business to Virginia must have been unworthy of the extra distance from beautiful downtown Everett, MA, where the vessel's ships have called for years. One has to wonder if Iceland will become a transfer shipping point for products from Maine and what freight Pan Am Railways can haul to the Portland area from elsewhere in the U.S. Eimskip sails Iceland-Europe routes as well as those to North America.