David Wren

The OOCL Iris container ship was scheduled to arrive at the Port of Charleston in the early morning hours of Feb. 18, making it the biggest cargo-carrying vessel to ever visit the port.

The Iris is now the biggest container ship to have visited the Port of Charleston, and its last stop on an East Coast rotation is testament to billions of dollars in investments to handle the world's largest and heaviest ships.

Another airline is warning of delays in the delivery of 787 Dreamliner jets built in North Charleston, providing further evidence of supply chain problems that have dogged Boeing Co. for years.

Report claims S.C. schools lose money to industrial property tax abatements, but it's not certain businesses would even locate in the Palmetto State without them.

Container ships almost never pull into the Port of Charleston on time, and that has at least one board member with the S.C. State Ports Authority questioning why the statistics are even being kept.

A proposal by the U.S. Trade Representative would charge Chinese-owned or built vessels millions of dollars every time they pull into a port in the United States.

A little more than $38 billion worth of goods left South Carolina for foreign markets last year, primarily through the Port of Charleston. That's a 2 percent year-over-year increase and the highest total since 2019, the state's Department of Commerce said.

A drain on Boeing Co.'s finances ended late last week when a West Coast factory the planemaker set up to repair tiny fuselage gaps on more than 100 787 Dreamliner jets rolled out the last plane needing fixes.

Volvo says it could move production of its popular XC90 sport-utility vehicle to SC if Trump imposes tariffs on European cars. It's something Volvo said it would do in 2017 but never did.

Hakan Samuelsson returns to Volvo as CEO after Jim Rowan resigned. The Four Seasons luxury hotel gets a new downtown Charleston address in former Days Inn site.