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Posted on 04/30/2026 7:02:16 PM PDT by daniel1212
In April, President Trump signed an Executive Order titled Restoring America’s Maritime Dominance. It aims to address the nation’s dependence on foreign manufacturers of commercial and military ships.
To make this possible, we are going to have to restore conditions and levels of investment that haven’t been seen since the 1970s. That was the last time the U.S. had anything approaching global maritime dominance.
The U.S. needs warships as well as containerships and bulk ships, and it needs them pronto. We don’t have the workforce required to mount the kind of resurgence the government is looking for, and costs are too high. Add to that an onerous procurement (or acquisition) process and it is easy to see how China pulled ahead.
China is eating the world’s lunch when it comes to military and commercial shipbuilding. According to the U.S. Navy, China has 232 times the shipbuilding capacity of the U.S. They built over 1,000 commercial vessels last year compared to America’s eight, and they did it for a fraction of the cost. They also manufacture 80 percent of the ship-to-shore cranes used in the U.S. and 96 percent of the shipping containers. In both categories, the U.S. is responsible for a whopping zero percent.
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Yeah, well when you use slave labor, it’s amazing what you can accomplish.
Did China use Chinese steel for those ships?
Who cares, No one.
How many drones and fighting Robots did China make vs Us, that is what I want to know
How many of those 1000’s of ships are blue water? How many total tons of displacement compared to the US Navy?
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