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Re:The Nation Needs a Shipbuilding Revolution by Yeul on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @07:34AM (#42931535)
In the 1970s the Netherlands tried to save it's shipyards (from Japan and Korea at the time China was nothing).

There's just no point to it your oil tankers end up more expensive so nobody will want to buy them.

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Re:The Nation Needs a Shipbuilding Revolution by bluGill on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @07:47AM (#42931667)
There is the real problem. World demand doesn't need enough oil tankers to support the level of automation needed to be competetive.

navy is different in that it is worth building your own and having that automation just in case.

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Re:The Nation Needs a Shipbuilding Revolution by timewizard on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @11:58AM (#42935153)
> In the 1970s the Netherlands tried to save it's shipyards

They have several successful ship building companies today. Is your point that it didn't work? That doesn't seem born out by the reality of today.

> There's just no point to it your oil tankers end up more expensive so nobody will want to buy them.

So the quality is equivalent? And there are no buyers who require high quality in their ships?

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Re:The Nation Needs a Shipbuilding Revolution by Neonlicht on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @02:56PM (#42937710)
The Netherlands still has very successful shipyards but they focus on government contracts (navy, coastguard, ferries) and (super) yachts.

The giant container ships and mammoth tankers are all built in Asia.

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