Posted on 03/10/2025 11:24:59 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
China went from controlling less than 5% of the global ship building market in 1999 to more than 50% today, while pushing its direct ownership of the commercial world fleet to nearly 20%. They did so by largely unfair and illegal actions.
Trump administration has proposed serious penalties to not only Chinese built ships that dock in US ports, but also, penalties to any company docking a ship at US ports that has a Chinese built ship in their fleet.
Trump administrations policy of America First, is far far more than simply tariffs.
Trump administrations policy of America First, is far far more than simply tariffs.
A warning indeed to the highest degree.
No good reason why the US let the shipbuilding industry die.
One of the main reasons we’ve fallen so far behind with shipbuilding is because of UNIONS.
I’ve known of far too many proposals that could significantly reduce the cost of shipbuilding but unions block it because they claim it could reduce LABOR. We don’t build ships in the most advanced ways because unions prevent it.
I’ve talked with people that sell equipment internationally and they will tell you that the Chinese obviously have lower labor cost but that they have also invested in the labor saving technology that most often improved the product being made.
“We” gave it away, you know jobs Americans don’t want to do anymore.
Hopefully we can take that back, but need people willing and able to do the work, and our govt not putting so many regulations in the way that it takes 30 years to build a ship
No Chinese ships huh? That’s one way to effectively boycott Chinese junk… and our West Coast ports will be empty.
Without tariffs, Chinese ships are cheaper. Econ 101.
Yes, but they’ve been doing more than simply cheaper, they have been doing a lot of things to take over shipbuilding and shipping
My grandfather was the head rigger at the Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula. Mississippi during WW2.
Tough old guy who was always drunk, but his boss said he did a better job drunk than others did sober.
That shipyard is still there. And Ingalls has others in different places.
Trump needs to be careful.
US industry can’t function without Chinese inputs.
Industrial companies might require people to buy their jobs.
If a single job costs $300,000 in common stock or equipment purchase, the union would not be able to risk driving the company under.
The Chinese, Canadians and Mexicans can fight back.
Don’t fight battles that you aren’t ready and able to win.
It strikes me, Brian Griffen, that you have a striking resemblance to a disgraced Brit who cowtowed to a German with the expectation of ‘peace in our time.’
Wasn’t it the Longshoreman’s union and the Teamsters that destroyed the shipbuilding industry here in the USA?
Remember that Mitch McConnell has a wife whose father built ships for China. He has received in public reports of up to $30 million from his father in law.
You can expect that number to be way low and the money is from the communist Chinese.
I bet he has helped the Chinese and undermined our country.
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