A brand-new frozen facility in the Northeast — operated by a 175-year-old logistics company.
The Maine International Cold Storage Facility is a state-of-the-art, strategically located warehouse designed to meet the growing demand for cold storage in the Northeast. Taylor delivers the operational discipline, visibility, and day-to-day partnership needed to keep cold-chain product moving — backed by 175+ years of warehousing and supply-chain experience.
MICSF sits on the working waterfront in Portland, Maine — directly adjacent to the International Marine Terminal and Eimskip's weekly transatlantic service to Iceland, the UK, the Faroe Islands, and Canada. For seafood, protein, dairy, and frozen food shippers, that means containers move from vessel to chamber in minutes — not days.
Cold-chain capability, end to end.
Storage is the floor, not the ceiling. MICSF runs as a full cold-chain operation — receiving off-vessel and over-the-road, holding under SQF, building cases and pallets to retail-ready specs, and tendering outbound across our nationwide carrier network.
Frozen & refrigerated storage
Bulk and racked storage built for high-velocity frozen and refrigerated SKUs. Lot/date control, FEFO, blast holds, and full chain-of-custody from receipt to outbound — managed in Synapse WMS with real-time visibility through the customer portal.
- Frozen
- Refrigerated
- Pushback
- Shuttle
Cross-docking & transloading
Streamline your cold chain with efficient transfer of goods between modes. Inbound containers off the IMT, transload into outbound trucks, palletize loose seafood and frozen product, and stage for distribution — without the storage penalty.
- Container destuff
- Pallet build
- IMT direct
- Reefer-to-truck
Case picking & fulfillment
Layer-pick, case-pick, and each-pick programs configured to your inventory profile. Lot and date capture on every line, label-to-the-customer rules, and outbound consolidation across retail, foodservice, and ingredient channels.
- Case pick
- Layer pick
- Lot capture
- Retail-ready
Nationwide freight services
MICSF is wired into Taylor's full freight brokerage and asset division — vetted reefer carriers, drayage providers, and LTL networks. One BOL from chamber to consignee, with proactive tracking and dock-appointment automation.
- Reefer TL
- Cold LTL
- Drayage
- Expedited
Port & Eimskip access
20 West Commercial Street sits steps from the International Marine Terminal, the U.S. East Coast home port for Eimskip's weekly Green Line service. Containers off-vessel can be in temperature-controlled storage the same day — a routing no inland cold storage can match.
- IMT-adjacent
- Eimskip
- Weekly service
- Rail-on-site
USDA compliance & holds
USDA and FDA segregation chambers with documented hold/release workflows. Lot-level, date-level, and pallet-level traceability in Synapse WMS means recall-ready documentation in minutes, not hours.
- USDA
- FDA hold
- Recall-ready
- Lot trace
On the working waterfront — at the Eimskip terminal.
The Port of Portland is the U.S. East Coast home of Eimskip's weekly Green Line service — direct container service between Northeast America and Iceland, the Faroe Islands, the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, and Atlantic Canada. MICSF sits steps from the dock.
Where MICSF sits — and what that means.
The Port of Portland is the only major East Coast port with a direct weekly liner service to Iceland, Northern Europe, and Atlantic Canada — and MICSF is the only purpose-built, GFSI cold storage warehouse at the terminal. For frozen seafood, protein, and ingredient shippers, that's a same-day routing from vessel to chamber.
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Eimskip Green LineWeekly fixed-day service to/from Reykjavík, UK, Netherlands, Norway, Faroes & Atlantic Canada.
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International Marine TerminalAdjacent to the IMT pier — same-day vessel-to-chamber movement.
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I-295 + I-95One mile to interstate; Boston under 2 hrs, NYC ~5.5 hrs by truck.
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Rail on-sitePan Am / CSX rail siding into the terminal complex for inland container moves.
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PWM airportPortland International Jetport ~3 miles for air-freight pairings.
Built to the highest standards for food safety and quality control.
MICSF is certified under GFSI, SQF, and FDA standards — and operated by Taylor under the same food-safety program that runs our Cincinnati food-grade warehouses. Your temperature-sensitive products are stored and handled with care, compliance, and precision, with documented chain-of-custody from inbound dock to outbound seal.
Benchmarked scheme recognized by retailers and brand owners worldwide.
Annual third-party audit of food safety and quality management.
Facility registered with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
Written plan, monitored critical control points, validated annually.
The visibility you'd expect from a modern 3PL — on a cold-chain footprint.
Cold storage doesn't have to mean fax-and-phone. MICSF runs on the same Synapse WMS as Taylor's food-grade Cincinnati warehouses, with Opendock for dock appointments, continuous chamber telemetry, and customer-portal access to inventory, orders, and documents.
Synapse WMS by Made4Net
Modern multi-client cloud WMS with lot/serial control, FEFO, configurable workflows, and real-time inventory visibility. Same platform that runs Taylor's Cincinnati warehouses — your team gets one portal across every Taylor site.
Opendock
Carriers self-schedule inbound and outbound appointments through Opendock — no inbox tennis, no dock chaos. Appointments sync to our Synapse WMS so the floor knows what's hitting which door, when.
Continuous chamber telemetry
Refrigeration plant and chamber temperatures recorded continuously, with alarm escalation to on-call operations and engineering. Per-lot temperature logs available on request for any audit, customer review, or claim.
Customer portal & EDI
Real-time inventory, order status, and document access through the customer portal. EDI 940 / 943 / 944 / 945 / 947 in production, with API integrations for ERP and OMS systems on request.
If it has to stay cold, we run it.
Seafood
Frozen lobster, scallops, groundfish, salmon — direct off the IMT or inbound from processor.
Protein
Beef, pork, and poultry — racked frozen storage with USDA segregation on request.
Frozen food
Branded frozen retail SKUs — case-pick to retail-ready outbound.
Dairy & ingredients
Refrigerated dairy, ice cream stock, frozen fruit and bakery ingredient.
Importer / exporter
Containerized inbound and export — IMT and intermodal rail moves.
Foodservice distribution
Multi-temp consolidation for regional foodservice and broadline.
Proud to call Portland home.
MICSF doesn't just sit on the working waterfront — we're part of it. From Casco Bay stewardship to Maine's entrepreneurial community, we show up where we operate. That's been Taylor's way for 175+ years, and it's the way we plan to do business in Portland.
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Friends of Casco BaySupporting Maine's bayside stewardship — water quality monitoring, advocacy, and on-the-water science across Casco Bay.
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Maine Center for EntrepreneursActive participant in Maine's entrepreneurial ecosystem — mentoring, growth programs, and community-building.
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Portland Regional ChamberEngaged member of the Greater Portland business community supporting workforce and economic development.
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Working Waterfront CoalitionBacking the people, businesses, and infrastructure that keep Portland's working harbor working.
A new building, a 175-year-old operator.
Taylor Logistics is a family-owned warehousing, freight, and supply-chain company founded in 1850 — now in its 6th and 7th generation of family leadership. We operate food-grade public warehouses in Greater Cincinnati, run a nationwide freight brokerage, and own an asset-based regional trucking division. MICSF brings that operating discipline to the Northeast cold chain.
Cold storage in Portland, Maine — answered.
Need cold storage in Portland?
Tell us about your product, your inbound mode (vessel, container, truck, rail), the temperature regime, and the volume. We'll come back with chamber availability, indicative pricing, and a path to go-live.