US wants to learn to build ships again

This confirms, it cancel

However, it is not clear whether the countries were considering the US plan for the entry of the ocean ships built in China to the US ports.

The subject of taxation of ocean ships to US ports is vital: Chinese goods in the US can only reach air or by ships.

On April 10, US President Donald Trump signed a decree to charge the entry of ships built in China to the country’s ports.

The tax rates were simply drastic, in some cases more than a million dollars per entrustment.

This was to encourage the shipbuilding industry in their country, which is almost extinct today.

While some of the logistics specialists drank Corvalol and others plotting goods from China to the United States through Mexico and Canadian ports, the news came after a week that rates would not be applied to the extent. The President changed his mind and foreseen many benefits for Chinese construction vessels compared to the first option.

This is no longer the first correction of primary rates performed by the president.

However, this correction should not be considered as a manifestation of Mr Trump’s inconsistency, but as the tax calibration of the test and error method, consistently, but in order to achieve its goal.

Age -old lessons

The US ship construction industry has a glorious past.

The victory in World War II was also secured by several thousand Liberty cargo ships.

It took about a month to build such a ship from the Kili and the record was five days.

These are the epochs « Liberts » were serious oceanic ships that lifted up to 10 thousand. tons of cargo.

The boat construction industry was so developed that, without tension, the aircraft carriers were built quickly and cheaply.

Now, there is virtually nothing left of this industry.

The number of ocean ships built in the US is counted on the fingers of the hand, little and prepared sailors.

And this is already a threat to national security of the country.

There was a case in the history of the world, with an empire, without a significant ship construction or seafarers, claiming significant sea force.

In the 20th century At the beginning of the 19th century, the Russian Empire Navy was the second or third in the world in tonnage.

Warships were either built mainly in state -owned ineffective bends or purchased abroad.

And such a navy in 1905. He came to the Cushima Islands near Japan and stopped existing there.

It is impossible to have an effective marine force without the whole complex: seafarers, builders, beach, bases.

And Trump’s administration seems to understand it.

In addition to the maritime complex, not only Guam, but also Hawaii, is not defended.

Americans: Aircraft Carrald R. Ford is filled with fuel for airplanes in the Mediterranean, 2023. Photo. / Photo by Scanpix

Builds slowly and expensive

Currently, there is only one beach in the United States, Newport, Virginia, capable of building atomic aircraft carriers.

She builds, but hard. Ten years of tired with $ 13 billion. The Pentagon strategists hoped that the Ford Sisterpip would be built both cheaper and faster in four to five years.

Unfortunately, Kennedy has been under construction for ten years, and does not exist, the planned service has been delayed this April.

By consensus of the sector specialists, the construction of ships in the US is approximately twice as expensive as in China.

But the aircraft carrier there, of course, you will not order. Although China is building aircraft carrier.

China has ambitions

Currently, China has three aircraft carriers, two of them built itself.

As long as Taiwan’s closest task remains, the military doctrine does not require unlimited aircraft carrier operation, so the ships are conventional.

However, the first atomic aircraft carrier was already started last year.

The aircraft carrier, which is not yet a name, is announced, and will be approximately the capacity of the Fords class: similar water, electromagnetic catapult.

He will already be able to carry out tasks in the ocean of the world.

The construction of the ship is expected to be completed until the end of this decade.

Considering the country’s shipbuilding capacity, this can be realistic.

The victory in World War II was also secured by several thousand Liberty cargo ships. It took about a month to build such a ship from the Kili and the record was five days.

Against the logic of history

Although Trump’s foreign policy is often seen as isolationist, its tariff policy is more aimed at preserving imperial capabilities that allow for power to design force worldwide.

In recent decades, the US transit to the post -industrial service society has been undermined by its « hard power ».

Industrial capacity is shrinking, and with them, the possibilities for a reasonable price to produce weapons and support the world’s order of force.

The fact that the industry – also the construction of ships – would return to the country, alone is unlikely to be enough.

This requires cheating on your workforce, which is a painful process that a democratic society will not want to experience.

The biggest challenges of the new-Seno United States are not in domestic policy rather than foreign politics.