Trump to overhaul US maritime industry

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Mar 6, 2025, 10:22:21 PMMar 6

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Jeff KH6O / 6

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Mar 7, 2025, 10:00:41 AMMar 7

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Hello Group -

Tnx Jeff for this article. Too many past Presidents have not done much to help American shipyards.

I hope Trump can do something to have American shipyards do more than just build a few US Navy ships.

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Mike K8XF

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Mar 7, 2025, 3:59:14 PMMar 7

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Sadly, many American shipyards were allowed to rust away.

There were many reasons,

from labor costs to lack of investor interest, but all were based on

ship building in the US being twice as expensive or more , to produce a ship in the US than

in other countries. Even at the peak of ship production during WWII, this was true as US Liberty ships

were much more expensive here than the identical ship in England.

Could we attract investor interest, develop a sufficiently large, highly skilled work force at competitive

price to say China? Would the government want to subsidize any of this given our present economic

budget realities? Sorry, but the economics are simply not on our side.

Larry

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Mar 7, 2025, 5:07:18 PMMar 7

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Hello Larry -

I am afraid you are correct. The cost of building ships in this country are too high compared to

Chinese or South Korean ships. Americans will not work for tiny wages and thats something to consider

if we are going to make merchant ships in this country.

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Mike

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