"The industry faces myriad challenges, including high steel costs that could rise further amid an ongoing trade war. The U.S. also lacks a commercial shipbuilding industry, which means military vessels can’t share supply chains for many of the same or similar components, or for raw materials or workers.
Shipyards also struggle with aging equipment—sometimes dating to before World War II—and labor shortages, especially in the skilled trades, aggravated by an almost complete ban on foreign workers for military shipbuilding that doesn’t exist in most other countries."
Why Mr Trump doesn't emphasize American competitiveness is beyond me. The answer is always "more tariffs" lol to Chinese out-performance and STEM (science technology engineering and math) even on AI and quantum computing recently.
And US companies much less shipyards... can't find skilled trades-people. Young American men are too busy ******* off or playing video games or watching Joe Rogan rather than learning the valuable trades that the economy needs and that pay well.
It's always "someone else's fault" and that's exactly what Mr Trump says.
Thank you for posting this.
"The industry faces myriad challenges, including high steel costs that could rise further amid an ongoing trade war. The U.S. also lacks a commercial shipbuilding industry, which means military vessels can’t share supply chains for many of the same or similar components, or for raw materials or workers.
Shipyards also struggle with aging equipment—sometimes dating to before World War II—and labor shortages, especially in the skilled trades, aggravated by an almost complete ban on foreign workers for military shipbuilding that doesn’t exist in most other countries."
Why Mr Trump doesn't emphasize American competitiveness is beyond me. The answer is always "more tariffs" lol to Chinese out-performance and STEM (science technology engineering and math) even on AI and quantum computing recently.
And US companies much less shipyards... can't find skilled trades-people. Young American men are too busy ******* off or playing video games or watching Joe Rogan rather than learning the valuable trades that the economy needs and that pay well.
It's always "someone else's fault" and that's exactly what Mr Trump says.