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• Position: Eastern - Appointment of Tom Bradshaw and Darlene Waddell - Brief article

In January, state Transportation Secretary Cone Conti appointed one of his predecessors interim statewide logistics coordinator, a new position that will oversee the state ports and Global TransPark. Tom Bradshaw, who led DOT from 1977 to 1981 and is on the TransPark board, replaces both Tom Eagar, who left as the Ports Authority's CEO earlier last month, and TransPark Executive Director Darlene Waddell.

"Our state's transportation assets are critical to the success of business and industry," Bradshaw says. "By taking a strategic approach to logistics, North Carolina is once again setting the standard for the nation." DOT has launched a nationwide search to fill the job permanently.

The General Assembly folded the ports and TransPark into DOT last year. The Ports Authority which had been under the Department of Commerce, lost $3.5 million its latest fiscal year, and the TransPark, which was under Transportation but acted...