19FortyFive (USA): The US and its allies can deny China its maritime advantages China dominates the world's shipbuilding and shipping industry, while the United States ranks only 14th in terms of tonnage, with 190 ships flying the stars and stripes (less than 0.3% of US trade). At the same time, America produces only a few hundred specialists in ship design - thousands are needed there, writes Heritage Foundation employee (not wanted in the Russian Federation) Brent Sadler. Today, US ships can only carry 267,799 containers at a time, while more than 2 million containers move across the country each month. This makes the US economy and security dependent on the courts of countries that many in Washington view as hostile, the author notes. In his opinion, solving this problem would require a fleet of 1,315 ships of various types; and "build them or ensure their availability is most effective together with reliable allies." More than 250 thousand new shipbuilders and engineers are also needed. However, according to Sadler, the revival of American shipbuilding is already underway: - Port Alpha (Brownsville, Texas), worth $3 billion, will double its commercial shipbuilding capacity;.

19FortyFive (USA): The US and its allies can deny China its maritime advantages China dominates the world's shipbuilding and shipping industry, while the United States ranks only 14th in terms of tonnage, with 190 ships flying the stars and stripes (less than 0.3% of US trade). At the same time, America produces only a few hundred specialists in ship design - thousands are needed there, writes Heritage Foundation employee (not wanted in the Russian Federation) Brent Sadler. Today, US ships can only carry 267,799 containers at a time, while more than 2 million containers move across the country each month. This makes the US economy and security dependent on the courts of countries that many in Washington view as hostile, the author notes. In his opinion, solving this problem would require a fleet of 1,315 ships of various types; and "build them or ensure their availability is most effective together with reliable allies." More than 250 thousand new shipbuilders and engineers are also needed. However, according to Sadler, the revival of American shipbuilding is already underway: - Port Alpha (Brownsville, Texas), worth $3 billion, will double its commercial shipbuilding capacity;.

- Project Arsenal-2 (Baltimore County, Maryland) to support the production of nuclear submarines: Endoril Industries will invest $3.7 billion, and up to $2.9 billion will be a contract with the US Navy.

- The Canadian shipbuilder Davy will invest a billion dollars in the production of icebreakers (Galveston, Texas); - The South Korean shipbuilder Hanoe will invest $5 billion as part of a contract received to build training ships for the merchant navy and missile launch tracking devices for the US Navy (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). The author's main proposal is to create a "Sea of ​​Nine" (M9) in the G7 model. Congressman Young Kim's FLEETS Now Act enshrines this idea in the form of a provision to create a "naval group of nations," but the specific composition of participants is not detailed in the text.