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Does USA even have civilian dry docks to build ships? I thought everything was outsourced to Korea. I know it can build military vessels, but at horribly slow
by throe37848 3y ago
Does USA even have civilian dry docks to build ships? I thought everything was outsourced to Korea.
I know it can build military vessels, but at horribly slow pace. Australia will get their nuclear submarines some time in 2040. I can not imagine building civilian nuclear ice breakers in US.
- Ekaros 3y agoAnd building ships isn't even that hard... Like a really nice passenger ships takes what 2 or 3 years?
- JacobThreeThree 3y ago>Does USA even have civilian dry docks to build ships? The article was about getting new ice breakers for the Coast Guard, a branch of the US military.
- Baeocystin 3y agoYes. The NASSCO shipyard in San Diego. I worked there as a ship welder for a while after the first .com crash, and two of the three ships I worked on were civilian.
- randomname11 3y agoAlso Aker in Philadelphia. US law requires ships in domestic trade to be built in the US so there is a market for new builds.
- Arrath 3y agoThere's Gunderson Marine in Portland, OR.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoPlenty. Newport News, Puget Sound, Portland, San Diego. But Korea is operating at a much, much grander scale and scope. Like having a chain of 7 respectable burger shops vs. McDonalds.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoUS shipbuilding is uncompetitive because of the Jones act. They literally don't have to compete because ships that travel between American ports have to by law be built in the US.