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Hurricane Florence: What We Know About the Year's First Major Storm

Elementum

It will deliver tropical-storm-level winds by noon Thursday to North Carolina's coast, and hurricane-force winds and dangerous storm surges by late Thursday or early Friday. Additionally, category 2 storm Helene, currently off the coast of Africa, is expected to crawl towards Europe after losing speed.

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Hurricane Florence: What You Need to Know About the Year's First Major Storm

Elementum

It will deliver tropical-storm-level winds by noon Thursday to North Carolina's coast, and hurricane-force winds and dangerous storm surges by late Thursday or early Friday. Additionally, category 2 storm Helene, currently off the coast of Africa, is expected to crawl towards Europe after losing speed.

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Top 5 Aerospace Supply Chain Disruptions of 2023

Resilinc

For example, on June 26, Lithium producer Livent Corp had a fire at its largest manufacturing plant in North Carolina. In another instance, Hulamin Aluminum Mill workers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, began striking on July 14 for higher medical care contributions. A lithium compound caught fire at the 800-acre facility.

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Supply Chain Disruption and Digitization

Enterra Insights

De Bernardini notes, “A massive amount of data will be available, along with systems and tools to collect, analyze and transform that data into information. One of the best examples is the delivery of blood bags in some areas of Africa. And truck platooning is being experimented with in North Carolina. Blockchain.

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Beyond The Data with William Sandoval

The Logistics of Logistics

I’m based out of Charlotte, North Carolina, which is a beautiful part of the country. I have designed power systems and communication systems. It has to pick up data from all these different systems or inputs. The world I see is also changing where there are still a lot of proprietary systems in the market.

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Perspectives on the Global Trade Environment: A Panel Discussion

NC State SCRC

As an example, there are tariffs on the automotive rotors that go into a brake system, and over the last ten years, the vast majority of these are produced in northern China. It is not so much the application of a tariff, or even leaving NAFTA, but more like “North Carolina leaving the United States!”

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