https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-create-office-shipbuilding-offer-tax-incentives-2025-03-05/ Anyone have some thoughts on this? I wonder if this going to be something in addition to the SHIPS For America Act or if it’s in anticipation of that getting passed. Seems like a separate thing based …

No, I really don’t. And if they were capable, their output wouldn’t matter to a degree that will make one GD bit of difference to Jones Act shipping. We’re not capable of producing massive tonnage like Bath, Philly, and Mare Island did during WW2. Between the sheer incompetence I noted (or as you po…

[image] captarne: We can’t even supply decent icebreakers to the USCG, I think this is 100% fault of government bureaucracy, not the shipyards. If it was private industry that needed icebreakers asap, with the funding to do it, I think there’s a few shipyards that could have the first one bui…

Yes there is plenty of blame to go around. Icebreakers have been built for over 600 years, so we know how to build them. We just need to streamline the procedure.

[image] captarne: blame to go around. When it comes to icebreakers, the blame isn’t spread around. There’s shipyards somewhere that wants the work. There’s architects firms that want to sell their plans or make new ones. While there not a big shipyard workforce available, there’s firms & unio…

The order includes 18 measures, including raising revenue from fees on Chinese-built ships and cranes entering the U.S., the newspaper reported. With doing no further reading or research on the Office, I am concerned this will bite us in the ass if any of the TSP ships were built in China. I had …

[image] Meme.Lord: APL just built some American flagged, These?: [image] Is APL (US flag) building new ships? Professional Mariner Forum Hearing the new APL ships are part of this order: APL (US flag) will get 7 of the ten 5500 TEU ships listed in this article. …

[image] jbtam99: No, I really don’t Based on what though? One ship that had issues? I haven’t heard much about the new Matson ships, I sail in a different union. However, Mass’ training ship doesn’t seem to have any issues having done their whole cruise fairly smoothly. [image] jbtam99: W…

How is the US going to pay for this new office of ship building much less subsidize the building when they reduce the staff of the IRS by 50% which collects the money to pay for the government?

There was a really interesting podcast I listened to recently and the name is escaping me, however they had Mark Kelly and the rep from Indiana who are sponsoring SHIPS for America act, and they went through the funding for what’s laid out in the bill which I imagine will be essentially the same for…

I read the proposed act there are a lot of good things in it, I’d encourage everyone to read it. Mariner credentialing is mentioned several times. All is supposed to be funded by the Maritime Security Trust Funds plus tax breaks and loan guarantees. “The Maritime Security Trust Fund would be finan…

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