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From one piece Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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American shipbuilding has been uncompetitive for a century; it is not a recent decline.Their words
The situation we face today, with U.S. ships costing at least twice as much to build as ships built elsewhere, is not a recent development; it’s been the norm for at least the past 100 years.
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The U.S., on the other hand, never appears to have been strongly motivated to make its shipbuilding industry an international success.
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The U.S. Navy estimates that China’s shipbuilding capacity is 232 times our own.
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Wartime shipbuilding surges have never left America with a commercial shipbuilding industry afterwards.Their words
But the U.S. again failed to transform its enormous shipbuilding effort into a successful commercial shipbuilding industry.
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Shipbuilding is labor intensive, and we see a repeated pattern of it moving to countries with low-cost labor: from Britain to Japan, then to Korea, then to China.
23 January 2024
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China built half of the world’s ships (by gross tonnage) in 2022, while the US had 0.2 percent of capacity: in practice, this meant that while China builds hundreds of new ships a year, the US builds three to five.
3 January 2024
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Specialized suppliers need multiple shipyards in one location to steady their business.
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