During 1966-67 a major iron ore terminal was built in the coast by the Portuguese at Saco, the bay just 12 km north of Moçâmedes (present day Namibe).
The route runs northwest from Saco, passes very briefly through a Northwest corner of Biddeford, and intersects U.S. Route 202 near the Lyman-Waterboro line.
The team was founded in 2003 and participated Atlantic Junior Hockey League until 2012, when Selects Sports Management, the owners of the Green Mountain Glades hockey club announced that they would move the Glades to Saco, Maine and rename the team the Portland Jr.
In addition to these awards, SACO have been awarded the "Best Property Provider" at Re:locate Awards two years running and are featured in The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For supplement.
Upon awarding him with the Civis Princeps award in 1972, Regis College noted that "many a good and generous man aspires to put a personal mark on his own city. Few have done so as indelibly – though as unobtrusively – as Saco Rienk DeBoer."
Aviation was born in Barranquilla with the creation of SCADTA in 1919 a joint venture between Colombians and Germans that delivered mail to the main cities of Colombia which later merged with SACO to form Avianca.
Three ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Saco for the Saco River and for the Saco, Maine.