Title

DeCoster Egg Farms of Turner ships around eight 40-foot-long container boxes ful

Authors

Laura Conaway

Source

Casco Bay Weekly

Date

1-23-1997

Pages

5

Abstract

DeCoster Egg Farms of Turner ships around eight 40-foot-long container boxes full of eggs to Hong Kong every week. Each box holds around 25,000 dozen eggs, meaning roughly 9.6 million DeCoster eggs travel through Portland harbor each month. DeCoster shipments through Portland Harbor have increased in recent months from five boxes weekly to eight. David Hefler handles exports for DeCoster, and said sales are booming despite the boycott of the company imposed after the U.S. Department of Labor fined DeCoster for poor working and living conditions.

Subjects

Commerce, DeCoster Egg Farms -- Turner

Recommended Citation

Conaway, Laura, "DeCoster Egg Farms of Turner ships around eight 40-foot-long container boxes ful" (1997). Maine News Index – Casco Bay Weekly. 1584.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/news_cbw/1584

https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/cbw_1997/4/