By WILLIAM F. WEST Staff Writer “Signage is in place at a North Church Street location that is going to be the retrofitted Rocky Mount distribution facility of a temperature-controlled food products motor carrier — and the building at that location also now has...
From Staff Reports “Future industrial sites in Edgecombe and Nash counties have made a list of six properties Duke Energy has selected in North Carolina for participation in the company’s 2020 Site Readiness Program. The purpose of the program is to identify...
Joanna Marsh Friday, August 28, 2020 “Although the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed back construction timelines, Eastern U.S. railroad CSX (NASDAQ: CSX) is forging ahead with the construction of two new intermodal terminals, one in Rocky Mount in eastern North...
August 4th, 2020 | Written by Anthony Pignataro “More than 11 million Americans worked in the manufacturing sector in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. These are good jobs, too: The average payroll by employee in manufacturing is $57,266. But...
August 11th, 2020 | Written by Anthony Pignataro “The third-party logistics (3PL) industry did more than $200 billion in revenue in the U.S. in 2018, according to Armstrong & Associates. That figure is double what it was just a decade ago. Rising labor...
By WILLIAM F. WEST Staff Writer “Rocky Mount has received another honor in the category of business and industry. Global Trade Magazine, which is based in Dallas and proclaims to be America’s leading publication on the subject of logistics, early this month...
