[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":294},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fmaine":3},{"tier":4,"sections":5,"faq":153,"sources":160,"related":176,"plate":217,"form":228,"scene":229,"path":230,"crumb":21,"ruler":231,"answer":232,"title":233,"h1":233,"description":232,"type":234,"schema":235,"reviewed":238,"crumbs":239,"jsonld":249},3,[6,14,47,60,82,106,120],{"h2":7,"blocks":8},"Maine, by road",[9,12],{"t":10,"text":11},"p","Maine is a place where i-95 is the only Interstate spine, ending at a Canadian border crossing, so loads rarely leave the corridor. Pallets here follow I-95 and I-295, and the distance they travel empty is the cost a nestable cuts.",{"t":10,"text":13},"The counties with the most warehousing jobs are Cumberland (1,731), Kennebec (419) and York (391), which is 67.3 percent of the state's 3,774. It shares a land border with New Hampshire.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Warehousing in numbers",[17,45],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":44},"table",[20,21,22],"Measure","Maine","How it is worked out",[24,28,32,36,40],[25,26,27],"Private warehousing and storage jobs","3,774","BLS QCEW, NAICS 493, 2025",[29,30,31],"Share of US jobs in the trade","0.2 percent","3,774 against about 1,901,976 nationwide",[33,34,35],"Establishments","72","BLS QCEW",[37,38,39],"Jobs per establishment","52","3,774 ÷ 72, rounded",[41,42,43],"Gross refrigerated space","8 million cu ft","0.2 percent of the US 3.99 billion","",{"t":10,"text":46},"Refrigerated space matters because a freezer is hard on plastic; the [cold guide](\u002Fguides\u002Fplastic-pallets-in-the-cold) says what to ask for. Maine held 8 million cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse capacity on October 1, 2025.",{"h2":48,"blocks":49},"Reading the numbers",[50],{"t":51,"items":52},"ul",[53,54,55,56,57,58,59],"Cumberland County has 1,731 warehousing jobs, 45.9 percent of Maine's 3,774, the most in the state.","Kennebec County has 419 warehousing jobs, 11.1 percent of Maine's 3,774, 1,312 fewer than Cumberland County.","York County has 391 warehousing jobs, 10.4 percent of Maine's 3,774, 1,340 fewer than Cumberland County.","Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 2,783 people in Maine, 0.74 for every warehousing job.","Food manufacturing employs 5,673 people in Maine, 1.50 for every warehousing job.","Maine holds 0.2 percent of US warehousing jobs, about one in every 500, spread over 72 establishments averaging 52 jobs each.","New Hampshire has 3,283 warehousing jobs, 0.87 times the 3,774 in Maine.",{"h2":61,"blocks":62},"Who ships pallets here",[63,78,80],{"t":18,"head":64,"rows":68,"caption":77},[65,66,67],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[69,73],[70,71,72],"Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing","2,783","0.74",[74,75,76],"Food manufacturing","5,673","1.50","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":79},"In Maine, pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 2,783. The questions are what the pallet is made of, how it is cleaned, and what documents travel with it. It tends to lean on clean, washable stackable or nestable with a paperwork trail, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about resin and colourant documents and the maker's cleaning guidance.",{"t":10,"text":81},"Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing is the trade where Maine is most concentrated, at 1.9 times the national share of employment. A buyer in that trade will tend to ask the questions in the last column first.",{"h2":83,"blocks":84},"The empty return",[85,87],{"t":10,"text":86},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 72 warehouse establishments in Maine sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 57,600 pallets. 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