Revitalize American maritime power: Today, President Donald J. Trump has signed a historic executive decree to restore American maritime domination.
- The order orders the creation of a maritime action plan (MAP) to revitalize the American maritime industries.
- The card will provide a strategy with specific actions to restore and create sustained resilience for the American maritime industry.
- Until now, government supply processes and surregulation have embarrassed the capacity of private industry to build ships in time and budget – this order inverse this trend.
- He ordered the Secretary for Defense to assess the options, including the authorities of the Defense III Production Production Act, to invest and expand the maritime industrial basis.
- Such action will help better use and take advantage of existing authorities to stimulate public and private investments in the maritime industrial database.
- The ordinance orders the United States’ commercial representative (USTR) to make recommendations concerning the anti-competitive actions of China within the naval construction industry.
- He also ordered the interior security secretary to enforce the maintenance costs of the port and other accusations on foreign cargoes entering the United States to prevent bypass via Canada or Mexico.
- This will put an end to a long-standing unjust practice, ensuring that all cargoes entering the United States are assessed the appropriate applicable costs and generate additional income for investment in the maritime industry.
- The American government will work with our allies and our partners to align trade policies to disrupt China’s non -commercial practices in the international supply and logistics chain sectors.
- The ordinance establishes a maritime security trustee to provide coherent funding for maritime programs in addition to a program of financial incentives for naval construction to stimulate private investments in American naval construction.
- It develops maritime prosperity areas to encourage investments in the communities of the seafront and must be modeled on the concept of very successful opportunity area of President Trump.
- It expands the training and education of sailors thanks to an investment in the US Mercihant Marine Academy and an expansion plan for training opportunities.
- To guarantee national economic security, the American government will increase the fleet of commercial ships which exchange abroad under the American flag as well as in the national field between our ports.
- The card will develop a strategy to ensure the security and leadership of the Arctic Navigable Ways to combat the growing presence of foreign nations in the region and the need for the United States to recover in the region.
- The administration will examine the means to improve competition in the private sector for government projects and will reduce costs to ensure that taxpayers’ funds are most effectively used.
- The ordinance orders the Secretary for Defense to examine and publish directives on the financing, retention, support and mobilization of a robust inactive reserve fleet, in order to ensure that we have adequate access to the capacity of sicrotation whenever necessary for military operations.
Resurrection of the American maritime industry: After being weakened by decades of neglect from the government, President Trump prioritizes the revitalization of the American maritime industry to strengthen the economic and national security of the country within the framework of the first American program.
- 0.2% of world ships are built by the United States, compared to 74% built by China.
- 0% of the containers used to move raw materials worldwide are built by the United States, compared to 96% built by China.
- In the United States, 0% of ship ship cranes are built at the national level, compared to 80% built by China.
- Chinese software belonging to the State is installed in port operations across the United States, without any alternative.
Make ship construction again: President Trump deeply cares about revitalizing shipbuilding and strengthening American maritime power.
- During the joint convention address, President Trump promised to “resuscitate American shipbuilding industry, including commercial naval construction and military naval construction”.
- President Trump: “We were doing so many ships. We don’t do them much anymore, but we will do them very quickly, very soon. It will have a huge impact.”
- To demonstrate the gravity with which President Trump considers this problem, he also created a new maritime and industrial capacity office at the National Security Council at the White House.
