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Re:"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern... by toast0 on Monday January 08, 2024 @02:55PM (#38917183)
Can you put a US flag on a merchant vessel built outside the US? If not, this isn't a real option, because there's no capacity to build large container ships in the US; and probably not enough capacity to crew US flagged ships with US based crews either.
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Re:"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern... by sbierwagen on Monday January 08, 2024 @05:10PM (#38918946)
The country of registration is separate from the country the ship was built in, and separate from ownership or nationality of the crewmen.

A ship can be built, owned and operated from outside the US but still be registered in the US.

You may be thinking of the Jones Act, which implements cabotage in the US, a fairly common practice among seafaring nations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabotage

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Re:"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern... by jafo1989 on Monday January 08, 2024 @03:53PM (#38917937)
Confer: Operation Earnest Will 1987-1988 [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Will

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