” A group of Navy officers together with some executives in U.S. companies that work on building U.S. navy ships, madde a visit to South Korea recently. They said they were amazed at how modern was the Korean naval shipbuilding industry, with so much more technology, automation and efficiencies than our American shipbuilding works. “
But the difference is that S Korea is the second largest civilian ship constructor in the world.
US civilian ship construction is basically zero (less than 10 per year).
So the Us is attempting to maintain a military shipyard capacity on top of a civilian which no longer exists.
“But the difference is that S Korea is the second largest civilian ship constructor in the world. ...”US civilian ship construction is basically zero (less than 10 per year).”
Yes. So the question is WHY??? Has/did U.S. commercial ship building sink so low. Is any federal legislation/regulation regarding shipping responsible for that, or did East Asia (first Japan, then South Korea, now China) with cheaper labor and newly built modern shipyards and less expensive steal merely out-compete agaisnt U.S. shipyards for the world’s commercial shipping fleets??? If so, and if the cost is most important of all (to make our defense dolars go further), then maybe the U.S. military just has to contract with Japan and South Korea for our ships.