BridgeTower Media has named Rick Jenkins group publisher for SC Biz News.
Jenkins formerly served as the publisher for GSA Business Report in the Upstate and will now oversee all operations for the statewide business-to-business media operations.
SC Biz News is the publisher of GSA Business Report, Columbia Regional Business Report, Charleston Regional Business Journal, SCBIZ magazine and many associated digital, print and event-driven media products.
BridgeTower named Jenkins after a nationwide search to replace long-serving group publisher Grady Johnson who stepped down in March.
“I’m so honored to have the opportunity to lead SC Biz,” Jenkins said. “The company has been the leader in producing and distributing valuable content to high-level business executives throughout South Carolina for more than 25 years, and the SC Biz brand is as strong as ever.”
A structure fire at
Boeing S.C. on Saturday resulted in no injures or damage to aircraft at the manufacturing site, the company said in a statement.
Emergency crews responded to a fire on the roof of Boeing’s plant on International Boulevard in North Charleston.
“There was an isolated fire contained to the roof of one of the buildings at Boeing South Carolina,” the company said in a statement. “The fire was extinguished, and there were no injuries nor aircraft damage. Our primary concern is always for the safety and welfare of our teammates.”
The company produces three models of 787 Dreamliners at the campus near Charleston International Airport and is one of the largest employers in the region.
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The S.C. Ports Authority has shifted two containerships intended to call on the Hugh K. Leatherman Terminal back to Wando Welch Terminal as shipping companies look to stay out of the fray cause by a union lawsuit, the Port of Charleston said yesterday in a statement.
In a months-long battle to ascertain HLT jobs that they believe should be assigned to union workers, the International Longshoremen’s Association has taken to using an “intimidation tactic” to get liners to boycott the port, the SCPA said.
Following the Leatherman Terminal opening, the ILA is suing Hapag-Loyd and the U.S. Maritime Alliance for $200 million in damages, arguing that by docking at the terminal and using non-bargaining employees, both violated terms of their Master Contract and subsequently cost ILA members future jobs and wages.
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The case could end up significantly changing the way companies that do business internationally resolve their disputes, not just in the United States, but across the globe.
Servotronics, an American parts-maker, supplied valves to Rolls-Royce, a British maker of jet engines, for use in an engine that was later installed on a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
Boeing makes three models of Dreamliners, but all come through the company’s operation in North Charleston as part of Boeing’s global supply chain. The 787-9 is the mid-sized version of the widebody jetliner.
When a customer buys a plane from Boeing, they have several options to choose from, including which engine to purchase for the aircraft. Boeing offers General Electric and Rolls-Royce engines for the Dreamliner.
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On the heels of opening of a new terminal in Charleston, the S.C. Ports Authority today announced plans to expand Inland Port Greer a pair of developments drawing praise from some players in the manufacturing and logistics sectors.
The installation of Charleston’s Hugh K. Leatherman Terminal has already spurred one Upstate-based logistics company, Greer-based TA Logistics, to consider doubling or tripling his personnel over the next 12 months.
Swafford Transport and Warehousing, a logistics company with several foreign-trade zone warehouses within a few miles of the inland port, also has seen a sign of greater things to come.