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Re:Why the U.S. can't build icebreaking ships by fsckboy on Friday September 27, 2024 @01:17AM (#41666520)
>woefully uncompetitive. They produce single-digit numbers of commercial oceangoing ships annually, at 2-4x the cost of elsewhere

unions and pro union legislation makes US shipbuilding uncompetitive. it also ruins US merchant marine. We could encourage it, but the world market is fairly competitive so we don't really need to, except for defense.

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Re:Why the U.S. can't build icebreaking ships by bluGill on Friday September 27, 2024 @09:55AM (#41670533)
Other countries have unions too. I don't know the situation in Finland, but they are surrounded by countries that have even stronger union and union laws that the US. (and some of those countries also have ship building)
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Re:Why the U.S. can't build icebreaking ships by ghnws on Saturday September 28, 2024 @07:59AM (#41679685)
Ship building, like most other industries, is unionized in Finland and I would be surprised if it wasn't the same in Germany.
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