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No. I mean US owned as in Huntington Ingalls, General Dynamics, Bollinger, Vigor, Alabama Shipyard, Detyens, Tampa Ship… not to mention the 5 government owned shipyards. And you would have been able to Google that successfully if you weren’t so blinded by your own Americanophobia.

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Lol Detyens. :sweat_smile::sweat_smile::sweat_smile::sweat_smile:

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Apart from General Dynamics, how many commercial ships over 1000 GT has these yards built between them in the last say 5 years?

You are able to Google that successfully if you aren’t to blinded by your own “America First-phobia”.
Like this sample:

Source: https://www.marineinsight.com/

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Korean yards have equipment like this at their disposal:

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Yes it was bipartisan but it recieved the green light and policy impetus by the current administration.

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It should be a bipartisan issue! But its biggest cheerleader is a dem, and the dems are the once supporting infrastructure spending. Infrastructure spending is in line with their economic philosophy.

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https://www.kedglobal.com/shipping-shipbuilding/newsView/ked202505190004?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR5yVmvGYrg-d7fZxrsyQ8fMwfoacFXgyX_7Q0vNdX5ckUdAa0IgNEBDmTW8Vg_aem_DQd8R5SRQ899yg6WAxVhkg

Can’t say I’m familiar with the website but this would be cool if it were even halfway true. If they pumped out 5 ships a year that’d be a vast improvement.

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Sounds like Hanwha is planning to do this the opposite way of how shipyards in high cost NW Europe are doing it:

  • Build hulls in low cost countries to design by NW European Naval Architects
  • Tow or transport the hulls to shipyards in NW Europe for outfitting.
  • Machinery and equipment are largely made in NW Europe.

Except that both hull building and outfitting will be done in a high cost US shipyard,
with design, machinery and major equipment supplied from S.Korea.

Not everybody has high hope that the revival of US shipbuilding will be a walk in the park:

PS> I remember when US Rig builders set up shop in Singapore back in the late1960s/early 1970s.
They built offshore drilling rigs solely for US Drilling Contractors (at least initially)
The drawing were from their US design offices (in USCU) while steel to build the hulls came mostly from Taiwan, Japan etc. (in metric units)
ALL machinery and equipment came from USA. (incl. derricks and legs for J/U rigs)

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The S.Korean Government is all for the effort to “help” US in their efforts:

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