This dropped 2 days ago. Highlights:
- The Order establishes a Maritime Security Trust Fund to provide consistent funding for maritime programs in addition to a shipbuilding financial incentives program to boost private investment in U.S. shipbuilding.
- It develops Maritime Prosperity Zones to incentivize investment in waterfront communities and is to be modeled on President Trump’s highly successful Opportunity Zone concept.
- It expands Mariner training and education through an investment in the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and a plan for expanding training opportunities.
- To ensure national economic security, the U.S. government will increase the fleet of commercial vessels trading internationally under U.S. flag as well as domestically between our ports.
- The MAP will develop a strategy to ensure security and leadership of arctic waterways to address the growing presence of foreign nations in the region and the need for the United States to reestablish itself in the area.
There's a lot more, particularly about reestablishing a shipbuilding (and container building) industry.
Here's a good overview on Youtube:
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The question being does America still have the expertise and workforce required.
Won't help until the mariners' unions quite driving the price of shipboard labor to unprofitable levels.
But, yes, time to bring the shipyards back. And to stomp all of the regulations that stifle shipbuilding.
Union busting has been pretty hard in America. Pinkertons and such got a rep for union busting. It took WW2 and all the 'emergency powers" to get the Unions to stop acting up for more pay and such back then.
As Pogo said "We have met the enemy, and he is us".
As mentioned above skill sets and work ethic are REAL PROBLEMS.
Not any better in Australia. One key difference though, here unions got their fingers into the pie of our equivalent of the 401K so don't need their members any more.
They still have essentially bankrupted the state of Victoria.
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