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"This is no drill. A fundamental pillar of America's security, our naval supremacy, is under threat from Communist China," ...

Last year, Chinese shipyards delivered 53% of global tonnage, according to Clarksons Research. With so many goods in the U.S.

Civilian mariners and employees who work at the Navy’s public shipyards and maintenance entities are exempt from an ongoing hiring freeze across the Department of Defense, the Navy’s top officer told ...

Lawmakers have previously raised concerns over the impact of these layoffs on ship maintenance, with Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Susan Collins (R-ME) directly calling on the Navy and Office of ...

The resurrection of military shipbuilding in the U.S. will hinge on improving wages and benefits for workers at shipyards, ...

We have the finest Navy ever assembled in the history of the world,” Seidle said. “They’re coming to a theater near you, ...

South Korea’s state trade promotion body Kotra estimates the US Navy plans to invest $1.1tn to expand its fleet to 381 vessels by 2054. It forecasts the global shipbuilding industry will grow from ...

China is leveraging its globally dominant commercial shipbuilding industry to support its naval modernization—and foreign ...

South Korea will bring in 280 shipyard workers from Uzbekistan as early as July to help ease labor shortages at small ...

The Trump administration has floated a proposal that would seek to revive the U.S. shipbuilding industry. The idea faces both ...

Learn more. In late 1941, “the exigencies” of a global crisis allowed Maine women to escape a world of domestic servitude by stepping out of the kitchens and into the shipyards. Their historic ...