Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 30, 2025

Agreement Details According to this weeks published report by The Wall Street Journal ( Paid subscription or metered view ) this acquisition includes Spirits sites in Kinston, North Carolina, and St. The reported milestone at the time was mid-2025. imports from Europe or U.S. exports to other countries. All rights reserved.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 19, 2025

Flooding and a rockslide shut down a stretch of Interstate 40 between the Tennessee and North Carolina border according to the Tennessee Department of Transportation. Emergency repairs reopened parts of the interstate in February 2025, with one lane of travel each way. Avoid this area. Roadway remains closed.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As a result of continued lower operational volumes, FedEx again lowered its fiscal 2025 outlook and is now expecting flat revenues and lower profitability levels for the entire fiscal year. FedExs established goal is to save $4 billion in fiscal 2025, and a cumulative $6 billion in costs by 2027.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 3, 2025

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has predicted “above-normal” hurricane activity this summer in its annual outlook for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. Hurricane Helene destroyed key infrastructure in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina, cutting off interstate access along I-40 for months.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 7, 2025

Tender rejections barely moved in 2024-2025, and although they’ve ticked up a little recently, it’s not enough to quite call it a turnaround. Stay clustered around areas where tenders are climbing — North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, parts of Texas, etc. And that’s why rates are dragging. Work short hops. Stack regional wins.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This week, global automaker Toyota indicated that the company would nearly double its investment in a planned battery production facility being constructed in the state of North Carolina. Production within this facility is scheduled to begin in 2025 with a capacity of 30 gigawatts-hours of batteries annually.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 9, 2015

For the average customer in North Carolina, he or she pays about $3 a day for electricity. If we look out at 2025 and forward, environmental leadership is key, and Duke is committed to be as environmentally responsible as possible. But this also has to be delivered at a reasonable price. Second is innovation.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 10, 2025

By April 2025, CarrierSource reported that 13,000 shippers visited the platform in a single month. Regionally, the top five freight markets for shipper search activity were Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 1, 2024

To that end, Airbus announced today that the European based company “ has entered into a binding term sheet agreement with Spirit AeroSystems in relation to a potential acquisition of major activities related to Airbus, notably the production of A350 fuselage sections in Kinston, North Carolina, U.S.,

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Freight Waves

JUNE 10, 2025

The Raw Numbers – What May 2025 Shows So far this year, 26,394 new motor carrier authorities have been granted according to FMCSA data, compiled via SearchCarriers.com. These were the top ZIP codes for MCs granted in May 2025: (Data Source: Searchcarriers.com. Just 44% (47,404) were audited. According to SONAR data, the U.S.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 5, 2025

Sixty miles of the Blue Ridge Sub — the former Clinchfield Railroad on the rugged North Carolina-Tennessee border — were wiped off the map in September. But what made CSX’s 2025 meltdown unusual was that it was not accompanied by a wave of customer complaints.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 6, 2025

” This is especially true in the area of agriculture because, as Andrew Greenland , an assistant professor of international economics at North Carolina State University, explains, “The U.S. ” Trump is not unaware of the potential hit to Americans’ pocketbooks. ” The Wall Street Journal, 4 March 2025. [2]

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2025

Their 2025 outlook identifies the five most likely supply chain events that will impact supply chain operations this year. The company points out that forecasted rainfall totals for Helene were very accurate one week in advance of the flood that devasted the Blue Ridge mountain region of North Carolina.

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EFT

JUNE 23, 2025

ESG Watch: Why extreme weather events are just the tip of the iceberg for companies in a riskier world The small town of Spruce Pine in North Carolina (population approximately 2,000) is an unlikely pinch point for the global digital economy. in the first four months of 2025 from the same period a year earlier to 18.98

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 28, 2025

The company officially broke ground Friday on a new 500,000-foot biologics manufacturing facility in Wilson, North Carolina. Song of the week: The post Supply Chain & Logistics News of The Week (March 24rd to March 28th 2025) appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 28, 2025

The company officially broke ground Friday on a new 500,000-foot biologics manufacturing facility in Wilson, North Carolina. Song of the week: The post Supply Chain & Logistics News of The Week (March 24th to March 28th 2025) appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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