US EditionHD Hyundai and Siemens Accelerate Modernization of U.S. Shipbuilding with Smart Technology
The SHIPS for America Act allocates fees from Chinese vessels to revitalize U.S. shipyards, aiming to restore thousands of lost jobs and reduce reliance on China, Congress says.
- This past week, Congress advanced the SHIPS for America Act with industry, labor groups, Democrats and Republicans backing efforts to revive U.S. shipyards and benefit American workers.
- Decades of decline left U.S. yards producing almost no oceangoing ships, with 70,000 fewer jobs and over 20,000 suppliers closed, while China’s heavily subsidized shipbuilding eroded U.S. capacity.
- Industry and unions are coordinating on training and digitization as last year the United Steelworkers petitioned the federal government, while HD Hyundai and Siemens signed a collaboration at APEC to dispatch instructors to more than thirty Siemens training facilities.
- Passage would deliver more American-made ships and yards, creating family-sustaining jobs and revitalizing American-made shipyards and suppliers, advocates said.
- Those fees set to take effect later this year will discourage Chinese sourcing, as administration remedies like docking and port fees target every large Chinese-built ship visiting U.S. ports.
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The Berkshire Eagle
HD Hyundai and Siemens Accelerate Modernization of U.S. Shipbuilding with Smart Technology
Combining digital and automation technologies to build smart shipyards and strengthen shipbuilding capabilitiesAdvancing workforce development through hands-on training and specialized engineering programs"Collaboration between shipbuilding and IT companies will be a catalyst for digital innovation in the U.S. shipbuilding industry"
The Virginian Pilot
Daily PressColumn: Federal bill would give shipbuilding a needed boost
Politicians love to talk about supporting blue-collar jobs for their working-class constituents. Here comes a real opportunity to do so: a bill in Congress that would give the American shipbuilding industry a serious shot in the arm. It could really use one. Several decades ago, 180,000 people worked in shipbuilding, and U.S. shipyards secured more than 70 annual orders for large oceangoing vessels such as tankers and cargo ships. Today, there a…
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