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Portland (/ ˈ p ɔːr t l ə n d / PORT-lənd) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County.Portland's population was 68,408 at the 2020 census. [4]
Container shipping through Portland has increased considerably over that same period. [8] 100 cruise ships docked in Portland in 2019, making it Maine's second-largest cruise ship port behind Bar Harbor. [9] A regional ferry service, Casco Bay Lines, also operates out of the Port of Portland.
The New England Shipbuilding Corporation was a shipyard located in the city of South Portland, Maine, United States. The yard originated as two separate entities, the Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Corporation and the South Portland Shipbuilding Corporation , which were created in 1940 and 1941 respectively, in order to meet the demand created by ...
The Stevens Avenue Armory (now known as Arthur P. Girard Innovation Hall) is a historic former armory building on Stevens Avenue in Portland, Maine, United States.Built in 1908 as a utilitarian two-story brick barn for the Portland Railroad Company's electric trolleys, it was converted into its current Art Deco style in 1940 by local architect and World War I veteran John P. Thomas.
Todd Shipyards was founded in 1916 as the William H. Todd Corporation when properties of the Tietjen & Lang Dry Dock Company of Hoboken, New Jersey were bought in 1916 by a syndicate headed by Bertron Griscom & Company of New York and placed under management of William H. Todd, president of the Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co., Erie Basin, Brooklyn, New York. [6]
The Portland Montreal Pipeline is a series of underground crude oil pipelines connecting South Portland, Maine, in the United States with Montreal, Quebec, in Canada. As of early 2016, the pipeline transports limited volumes, [ 1 ] sufficient to keep the pipeline wet.
This includes the Midcoast Bureau (on Camden Street/US 1) in Rockport and the Lewiston–Auburn Bureau (on Main Street/ME 11/ME 100/US 202) in Lewiston. In January 2018, WLBZ and its sister station WCSH rebranded their newscasts under the News Center Maine moniker. On June 1, 2020, WLBZ and WCSH premiered an hour-long weekday newscast at 4 p.m.
Television Guyana, also known as TVG is a Guyanese over-the-air television network owned by the Ramroop Group of Companies, led by Dr. Ranjisinghi 'Bobby' Ramroop, the owner of Guyana Times and Radio Guyana. It is the oldest television channel in the country, descending from the former Vieira Communications Television.