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August 18, 2016
GTP and Logistics Overview of Eastern
North Carolina
Charles HW Edwards
Outline
• Eastern North Carolina’s Evolving Freight Logistics
Network
• Building on North Carolina’s Supply Chain
• Global TransPark
• New Challenges Everyday
• Central Eastern North Carolina
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Eastern North Carolina’s Evolving Freight Logistics
Network
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Building on North Carolina’s Supply Chain
- Key Findings
+IMPACT represents Indirect & Induced totals. All figures represent
2013 IMPLAN data
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North Carolina’s Supply Chain
Listed in order of Value Added (GDP Contribution)
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GTP – An Overview
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5,668 acres
Environmental permits completed
877 acres – NC DOC certified site
10,500 long runway
On-site rail – linked to NS
Training facility
4-lane access to I42 / US70
13 existing facilities
Nearly 900 jobs on-site
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GTP – An Overview
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GTP – Major Tenants
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GTP – Spirit Aerosystems
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GTP – Spirit Aerosystems
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GTP – Spirit Aerosystems
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GTP – Spirit Aerosystems
• Over 100 ships sets delivered to date
• Scaling up production to make 8 shipsets per month before year
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Central Eastern North Carolina
• New Investments / Focus
• CCX, US70/I42, Goldsboro Bypass, Havelock Bypass, Gallants
Channel Bridge
• GTP / Kinston
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Spirit – increased production rates
On-site rail
CF Harvey Parkway extension
Expanded industrial activity
• Port of Morehead City
• Increased traffic
• New ship calls
• Hub for eastern NC ‘wet’ inland ports
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New Challenges Everyday
• General
• Anti-globalization sentiment
• Circular economy and logistics
• Truck driver shortage and parking
• Class 1 railroads’ focus
• Specific
• Road and rail corridors
• Economic development leverage of CCX
• Inland ‘wet’ ports
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We plan for freight flows that never stop!
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