New England Salt expands Downeast footprint
The Winterport-based New England Salt Co. is hopeful that it will be expanding its Downeast operations of supplying road salt to communities in northern Maine and in the maritime provinces of Canada after inking a deal with Federal Marine Terminals, the operators of the port in Eastport.
New England Salt President Steve Clisham told the Bangor Daily News that the company will know what new communities it will be serving by mid-summer when local officials field bids for road salt.
“We want to concentrate more on the Downeast area and northern Maine,” Clisham told the BDN.
New England Salt, which imported 85,000 tons of salt from South America and Morocco last year, currently provides the counter-measure to Maine’s slick winter roads to between 100 and 150 municipalities in the state.
Although Clisham declined to disclose the company’s revenues, he is hoping the expansion will add “15% to 20% to the bottom line.”
Company officials told BDN that it selected Eastport for the expansion because it’s the deepest port on the entire Eastern seaboard and was outfitted with a $10 million conveyor system in 2013. The company expects to import its first salt shipment through Eastport this summer.
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