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Article: Opening port holes. (Wilmington and Morehead City)
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- Business North Carolina
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- November 1, 1993
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Burrowing for business, Wilmington and Morehead City scratch a niche from which they hope to grow.
In 1989, when Jim Scott reported for work in Wilmington as the new executive director of the North Carolina State Ports Authority, he had his work cut out for him. Two major shipping lines, Sea Land and American Container Line, had just dropped Wilmington as a port of call, and tonnage handled there had plunged by almost half. Wilmington and Morehead City together had lost money for two consecutive years and ranked dead last in market share among the major ports from New York to Jacksonville, Fla. Long overshadowed by neighbors Norfolk and Charleston, Wilmington was in ...