Though many events and local operations have wound down for the day in preparation of Hurricane Ian’s arrival, the Wilmington Boat Show is still on. After pummeling west Florida, Hurricane Ian is projected to make landfall again midday Friday in South Carolina as a Category 1 hurricane. The Cape Fear region is expected to be inundated with heavy rainfall, wi ...
Environmental and offshore wind researchers shared their insights at the N.C. Offshore Wind and Wildlife Solutions Summit this week, weighing the balance of protecting coastal resources with the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through alternative energy sources. Hosted by the N.C. Coastal Federation and other environmental groups, the summit on Tuesda ...
The Port of Wilmington will soon feature even more room equipped to temporarily store refrigerated containers. Last month, the N.C. State Port Authority Board of Directors voted to authorize phase two of its reefer yard expansion, a nearly $22.6 million project. The first $14 million phase, which wrapped in May 2020, introduced 540 new plugs to the p ...
North Carolina State Ports Authority’s fifth annual cold chain summit convened a variety of stakeholders at the day-long conference Tuesday, who reflected on the past year of disruptions, redirections and reimagined paths forward in the transportation scene. The pandemic-prompted supply chain disruptions brought an entire industry into the limelight that had ...
The area off Southeastern North Carolina's coast being considered for offshore wind will be divided into two leases when companies bid on the rights to develop the ocean areas 17 nautical miles from Bald Head Island, federal officials announced Friday. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued its final sale notice to lease the Wilmington East Wind Energy Area ...
On Valentine’s Day, the Port of Wilmington officially opened its new South Gate Container Complex after months of beta testing new systems and processes. The $26 million project began three years ago. It reconfigured the port’s previous container gate layout used by truckers, increasing the outbound lanes from three to six and inbound lanes from four to seve ...
The Village of Bald Head Island submitted a formal complaint to the N.C. Utilities Commission Wednesday, asking it to regulate Bald Head Island Limited's currently unregulated parking and barge operations. The commission currently governs rate increases for Bald Head Island Limited’s ferry and tram services. Each of the company’s four services functio ...
An offshore wind farm off the Southeastern North Carolina shoreline has the potential to materialize billions in economic development opportunities, according to stakeholder estimates. Forging the ambitious project into a reality will call for a coordinated and robust response from private and public stakeholders, necessitating a bulked-up stateside manufacturing ...
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A new facility at the Port of Wilmington is introducing North Carolina soybean farmers to new buyers. Constructed by Scoular, an Omaha-based company specializing in international trade and supply chain solutions, the transload facility opened last week. It allows for the convenient containerization of soybeans and other agricultural products to be loaded onto ship ...
Untappd Taps Out Of Downtown Wilmington Office Building
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ILM To Chart Future Path In Forthcoming Report
Miriah Hamrick
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Boombalatti’s Homemade Ice Cream became a local favorite when it first opened in The Forum on Military Cutoff Road in 1999. When Wes and Kri...
Plans for major improvements fell by the wayside, delayed by life and the home’s overwhelming degree of deterioration, which placed the prop...
Many industries have started to recover from the roiling effect the pandemic had on the labor market, but nearly three years after the first...
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