A Holistic Approach to Commercial Maritime National Security | Sal Hosts @Sea-Air-Space 2024
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- Опубликовано: 21 апр 2024
- A Holistic Approach to Commercial Maritime National Security
What's Going on With Shipping?
April 22, 2024
In this episode, Sal Mercogliano - a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner - hosts a panel at the US Navy League's Sea Air Space Expo in Washington DC on April 10, 2024 on A Holistic Approach to Commerical Maritime National Security. The panel included Vice Admiral Peter Gautier, Deputy Commandant of Operations for the US Coast Guard; Vice Admiral Joanna Nunan, 14th Superintendent of the US Merchant Marine Academy; Mr. John McCown and Mr. Mike Roberts, both Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Maritime Strategy.
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Hey Sal, dont sell yourself short. You and your channel provide a much needed service, a better view of the business of shipping, and that is a critical service to the layman trying to make heads or tails of the world. Thanks!
hear, hear!
He's folked us all ... Worse than IMUS /CSPAN take over...
@@WDON2010..... to late
Someone finally called Sal
WHY TF DID YOU ANSWER.. ie:
show up when ordered
Better Call Sal
the medium of youtube is amazing. 50 people in the audience and 1200 views online within 30 minutes of upload. That ratio alone is amazing and i would guess this video on an esoteric audience would end up filling up a football stadium. As many people as ever saw Teddy Roosevelt speak.
Exactly! RUclips is great for esoteric subjects and people finding the right audience.
so true
*Shit, that 1,200 views in 30 minutes is, absolutely, nothing compared too Big Sal's other videos. A lot of his videos are getting 12,000 views in 30 mins, while lately he has been getting 100,000 views in 30 mins, especially when it's about The Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsing &/or The Red Sea.*
*Some of Sal's videos have been getting MILLIONS of views, in the first few hours of the video being published on his channel. It's a shame that it's because of TRAGIC EVENTS, like the Key Bridge Collapsing &/or The Red Sea Crisis caused by the Middle East Escalation...*
*Nowadays it's hard to go "Viral" when you talk about good &/or positive things &/or events.*
Having an ADMIRAL be on the panel is a HUGE deal. Can we just acknowledge that
For the CSIS GOVERNMENT that controls Everything....
Sad....
TWO admirals!!!! And DCO of USCG is the 3rd highest ranking officer in the whole fleet!
I am continually struck by how the intelligence, reserve and competence of these soldiers contrasts with the image of bloodthirsty meatheads some would have you believe.
Most Flag officers possess the qualities you mention, the real contrast is between the ones who can check their ego and remain humble and those who struggle in doing so.
Not if the admiral is ⛽ gaslighting.
The brilliance in this panel, Congress should sit up and take notice, great job Sal.
Exactly.
Sal I’ve been jamming on this RUclips channel pre-fanboy time..
And I gotta tell you, you are just doing such a service to this country and for the information space. I really wanted to put a jacket on you with a bunch of metals just to have you fit in. You are clearly a boss bro keep it up.
Good job!
I'm surprised the audience present was so small, good thing we have a recording available on RUclips. Thanks for that 👍🏼
Great job sal.
This is as good as it gets.
People who genuinely know stuff talking about stuff they know.
No BS. The facts with opinions based on know how.
More please!
Wow we have a swveral year backup because we lack laser printers? Surprised someone didnt get so fed up and order some on their personal amazon account.
YES my thoughts also 😊 I was thinking do you really want to use printers or lack there of modern era copies as a speaking point when you interduce yourself. Especially now when Ink toner or color ink
Is more expensive than a modern PRINTER. But his comment also told me very much about a big "Y" when the US is falling behind. I worked in Local Government and Utilities my whole life
I saw where the city would send a Director a supervisor or Foreman to a convention new equipment event. These people at least in my work NEVER ever even sit in the equipment when it's working. Understand what needs to be done to operate it in a professional manner. Yet the powers to be just send the people to these events that do not operate the equipment the government buys. All I would hear after Foreman came back from convention was the DRINKING he did every night, the GAMBLING he did every night and some DAYs being Hungover just skipped the seminar or demonstration of new equipment. This was standard event attendants by my city.
And we wonder why we are falling behind China. China and Japan workers at least what I see have a great work ethic. I see China coming to North America with huge new equipment brands that are cheaper than big name US builders. And I own stock in the big one that is US company Headquarters here. So I'm not knocking the US built equipment company.
VADM Gautier is an extremely intelligent man to be representing the USCG. Loving this panel and I'm hoping your discussions here are picked up and heard by the right people to make a difference. Awesome job pulling this together Dr. Sal!!!!!
Sal for president.
Campaign slogan? «What's going on with our country?»
I'd hate to lose the information that Sal makes available. I do think that the system of selection of candidates for Senate and president is defective.
Hahaha ha ha ha ha!
I just wanted you to know I shared that laugh. [and yes, I counted the laughs]
@@george2113 Defective?
As the British are known for _understatement._
@@yonatan62 They do train, and just as hard. I think one comedian said it best: "They _must be_ sucking the Devil's cock." Occam's Razor.
@@davidgoodnow269 when the choice in November for US voters is Biden or Trump, then I say yes the system is defective!
Sal I think you are doing these good people a big favour. You just multiplied their audience by several orders of magnitude.
Reagan closed all shipbuilding in the in the Northeast, save for Portsmouth and Connecticut. I was one of many who never worked again in the industry..
Thanks for posting this Sal~~
It's cool to see Sal hosting the event. Good channel good work Sal.
My father was an arc welder from 1940 to 1970 and worked on ship and submarine components I imagine so much industrial capability has been lost it will severely limit our capability to produce anything like the WW2 Victory Ship program.
Your lack of understanding does not change the complexity of the world around you.
When I look back at the B&W films of the Yards that made Higgins PT boats 😊
I am just fascinated by that tiny mass produced vessel of WW-2 just like the Liberal Ships ( been on the J. O'Brien in SF harbor ) on tour. 😊 Neat, neat ship that helped win the War. But I think back to PT boat builds and fabrication. The best part was the turn table system that they used to flip the hull over for faster production.
I look on modern assembly lines, that do the same thing still, an Idea that the mass produced of a World War developed 😊 then just streamlined it into the modern era. 😊 When I look at the modern today's Navy how many sub rolls have been removed, vessels that support the larger capital ships, just take TUG boats for example. The Navy has just about removed all their Navy built TUGs, it's all contacted out to Private vessel assist. The Canadian Navy still builds Navy Tugs for its main Bases.
The speaker talked about the Tanker ( floating gas station for the US Navy)
I'm with you Build like the Liberty vessel fleet of WW-2 😊 of course the oil tankers would be built with multiple hulls, today's standard, but the country and owners of these ship yards could bring up the work force again like you pointed out when you said welders ect. I think the biggest problem is the Senator that cares more about re-election, getting more Government grants to his or her ship yard state.
@@Look_What_You_Did < Botpost with zero content detected. Lack of building capacity is real and testable.
@@Look_What_You_Did We spent the last 50 years shipping jobs elswhere, mostly China, and this panel is focused on just such a lowered capacity.
The first fundamental issue I see is lack of steel. But, maybe there's enough? I know that's what stopped the sale of the last remaining steel foundry capable of large-scale military production in the United States of America to the only potential purchaser willing to buy it, a foreign government. It's been limping along on 8-28% capacity for a decade, hemorrhaging cash.
The problem isn't just skills, at shipyards and boatyards, either. Welding units capable of shipbuilding are now illegal in the United States of America. I had a retired neighbor who built battleships during World War II; after retirement, he bought his old welder as surplus when the yard closed and reconditioned it. That welder sat next to the American flag pole in his yard, until someone recognized what it was and had it confiscated for destruction. It simply wasn't allowed to even exist, even as a memorial to his own service in World War II.
Sal wearing the wrong type of shirt! - thank you for sharing this
I have a Hawaiian tie on
@@wgowshipping on my 27" PC screen your tie is still too small screen not showing up
@@wgowshippingI thought you were going to say boxers. 😂
Good grief my dyslexia got in the way again - let me explain a better way… even on my PC screen your tie just looks blue/grey with some slight stripes in it but it looks bad due to RUclips compression of the colour and detail
The guy on the left has the best hair and was my favorite on stage.
Thanks Sal
MSC [Military Sealift Command] currently can't find enough licensed 3rd & 2nd officers to adequately man their ships. So, better expand that while adding more ships. Boats without licensed mariners are Paperweights.
Thank you Sal, I found the program to very very interesting and , as usual , learning so very much. My own interst is my military service with the Army in the Vietnam War. I also crossed the Atlantic 5 times as a kid, and once across the Pacific on a troop carrier for 30 days, and which I really loved. After returning from the war I became a pilot and Flight Instructor, so my life went in another diredtion. I was in the M. E. for several years, part of was a director at TINS in Saudi Arabia.
Thanks, it was really great.
Thank you, sir.
very informative and thought-provoking panel
Good for you Sal! A leader of us little crumbs!
Ty for posting. Very interesting. You Rock Sal.
Sal if you're ever in San Pedro ca. Check out the Sculpture honoring the Merchant Marines in front of the Maritime museum.
I'm not an art person but i stumbled accross one evening and was completely blown away by it.
Thank you William, I'll look for a picture
@@george2113 See it in person if you get the chance.
www.google.com/search?q=merchant+marine+statue+san+pedro+california&oq=merchant+marine+statue+san+Pedro+&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j33i160l5.25186j0j4&client=ms-android-verizon-us-rvc3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#wptab=si:AKbGX_rEySk5IILH3W8T9de2e1nGBqsqrF5F7z-x3T3gjAOzw0JHqHMe5DdlJ3-KiPcxWGOkWCBpqmqyeZu_o39nEVJDAfL9_4WY02sLjQffdR9rVQ2w0b8iMbaojbcTt0HUyr4n_c71Zqo7gc6z2nFudXxElOP8hYYBnxDnVCdBt54YT7QjZPY%3D&lpg=cid:CgIgAQ%3D%3D is this what you mentioned?
As a marine engineer and ex Marine Training Manager for a merchant shipping company I started to see the problems lying ahead when I was starting to struggle to find berths for the cadets to get their sea time. No many years later the company switched to offshore manning companies in favour of local sea staff because of cost and not much longer the cadet training also fell away. If the USA is serious about training and manning their merchant fleet then something will have to be done to ensure that salaries and terms of employment very good and will have to accept that offshore manning is by far cheaper and less overheads.
Put your money where your mouth is and start getting your cadets/sea staff onto merchant ship straight away. Maersk is closely linked to the USA and should be approached for berths. Do what it takes without all the red tape. Be a leader in cadet training.
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From what was said by the Vice Admiral, it sounded like that has been done.
With alternative fuels/energy sources the number of incidents will increase. It's already a bit complicated with swapping tanks between daily fuel, very low sulphur and normal diesel oil. There are many unknown attributes for running these other fuels through a massive piston engine. How does a compression ignition engine respond over time to running on methanol or ammonia for example; do we actually know?
Excellent panel. In particular Mike Roberts on what to do to strengthen our merchant marine fleet. Action is overdue, and viable option presented. John with the 53ft boxes make business since, "cargo is king" . The US could also mandate a % of cargo to be carried on US-flag bottoms. VADM Nunan did a great job presenting the talent pool coming out of USMMA and the need for the USNR program to look at retention. I stayed in an grateful I did looking back, but my career path with MSC and MARAD made it much more attractive for me to keep in the program. Keeping USNR mariners is the program that are afloat should be a priority. Well done Sal.
Awesome Sal! Great work again at the conference...cheers.
The accident that resulted in the Baltimore Key Bridge destruction is just one example of how vulnerable our shipping assets are in 2024 - thank goodness you gentlemen are evaluating these weaknesses - keep up the good work!
, results from..
The PRAISING of THE UGLY BIG BAD , and nonviolent and resourceful INDIAN NAVY ..
My father was an oiler on the Seneca Castle in the Merchant Marines in 1945. In his last years before his death this month he spent a great deal of energy trying to get the recognition and benefits for the USCG-MM it deserved. He figured that the government would give the USCG-MM it's recognition after the last seaman died in order to not have to give any benefit.
wow - I am quite new here and not at all an insider, just interrested in the Baltimoreaccident etc. and did not know, that u would be in such an audience - u always dress so modest in your small, cosy surroundings and speaks so attentively about some other skilled men👏
“Holistic approach to xxx...”. Love ya Sal, but I wanna gag whenever I hear that phrase. The aversion stems from my years at SUNY in the early 90’s.
Not my idea for the title. I was just the invited moderator.
There is good reason the industry moved you out.
Great discussion - thank you!
nice one Sal, i love to see these kind of meetings made public through your channel, it proves to us that those who carry the weight and authority are paying attention and voicing the public concerns of modern day shipping and trying themselves to get these important issues addressed
i have also seen some videos recently concerning international insurance, rescue and salvage in maritime, i found it pretty intriguing to hear the views of those in charge, but strangely i personally feel that some measure fall short, in particular when there are a number of organizations fighting each other for the power of being in charge - something we all saw with the Golden Ray, that i found to be a monumental cockup taking far too long to address - it seems the Key Bridge is being dealt with properly
but my answer is to have something way bigger in place to assist in the rescue of these larger ships and be able to cater for all the needs required on scene without the need to call land based services and have to wait for them to be on scene and access what's required
but of course i am just another person with a small voice that doesn't get heard
LIBIOT
Limited supply, limited availability.
What is needed is already available at every port, because it gets used.
Make something for-purpose, and it will have low availability because of the costs and rare use.
@@davidgoodnow269 here in the UK we have a fantastic Coast Guard service, its a volunteer organization, staff are trained and valued for their skills and what they bring to the table - recue equipment is housed and when needed, the shout goes out, staff are called in and off they go, do the job and no questions asked - the point is IT WORKS - there is no such thing as can't these things can be off set against the cost of possible disasters, preventative measures so for example, and i have not yet seen the costs on this bridge, but if it were 5 Billion and an effective vessel only cost 1 Billion then surely its worth thinking of, but your right, availability, being on scene in an efficient time would be a key question, so do you have more capable vessels - there are similar vessels already being used, but company owned and with limited use to their disposal
This was awesome, thank you Sal as usual. You are a great lecturer and turns out a great host as well!
WOW! 🤯 🤯🤯. Content you can’t nowhere else folks!!!!
Thank you Sal
Very interesting and informative.
Very educational; Thank-You.
Thanks for recording this Sal it was cool to see.
Very interesting Sal, keep it up!
That comment about Liberty ships had me going... say what? My dad served on board a Liberty ship in the Pacific. Far as I understood, everyone on board was navel personnel, and yes, they saw combat on multiple occasions. So I did a quick check and according to the National Park service they did indeed have a mixed crew. Something my dad never mentioned.
Guaranteed, 100% of the crew were navel persons.
@@robg9236 not … about 30% were Naval Armed Guards & Signalmen ⚓️ ruclips.net/video/7d7BIVsGkMA/видео.htmlsi=_XQVRYe_Vw2cB5Yb ♨️
Hello Sal,
This is Capt. Singhal from Singapore & India. I did subscribe to your channel and also hit the bell, sadly after DALI hit the bridge :)
ISM Code is unfortunately implemented more as ‘window dressing’ by most Ship Management companies. There is a lacunae in ISM code itself.
Have tried to reach you through a close common American friend, on ideas to bring about the paradigm shift changes in ISM code, from its present exploited “(ISM) International Shipmanagement Moneymaking code” to ‘SAFETY Management’ and bring back the glory of Shipping as it was when Owners monitored and managed their own vessels in the 20th century.
Will be happy to connect to take this forward to its logical conclusion so as to also ensure that DALI’s sacrifice does not go in vain.
😮 Sal , you have just s c r e w e d your show and us all .... enjoy your CSIS / ATLANTIC COYNCIL .. mandated content
Thanks Sal - Enjoy your shows and enjoyed this presentation
Sal, an awesome panel discussion. A Schuyler grad here but long out of the maritime industry. I've been following these discussions wherever I find them and I'm just curious..... is our govt actually listening??
With all the money we spend on defense it's mind boggling that printers were ever a bottleneck for anything
If your subscribers had notice, we would have filled that hall. ❤
I read all the comments, and understood the context on both sides, my contribution and disagreement, yes we definitely need to reinvent the wheel for a combination of proactive reasons. One climate change, they never mentioned or spoke of how will transition our navy away from fossil fuel propulsion, nuclear and fusion propulsion should be developed into next gen shipbuilding and skill development human capital capabilities, secondary the shipbuilding ports needs to transition to green shipyards that are proactive on sea level rise and tsunami defense design, the concerns of maritime industry has been stymied by intellectual property protection, the private sector and military both failed on price gouging they also never mentioned this - I’ll have to challenge them all on these unanswered questions, China is aiming for space defense, that means out navy needs to focus on space weaponry countermeasures and they also don’t mention cyber weapons, on hacking the navy, A.I. will be used by enemies, for sea power and real time combat for navel warfare purposes. This will also be needed for shipbuilding capabilities and manufacturing. I’m thankful they clarified how out of touch they are from the realities, they also don’t mention military recruitment issues and workforce development training solutions ? These are the mistakes, we need to modernize on beyond the status quo. This is the wrong approach and direction for our navy and build real solutions. I’m curious to these reforms ?
Well done Sir!
Damn Sal, didn't know you were so cool 😍
Hi Sal, now this is the kind of excitement I Subscribe too. 🧐
@josephfreddy6653
18 hours ago
Sal Mercogliano, Your pod cast is fantastic. It may be a Zenith for American Mariners to discus the truth about a course correction before the final demise. As a merchant historian can You answer the question as to why and when the former president of the Chase Manhatton Bank sent delegates to Liberia to establish the first modern flag of convenience??? Please try to understand the why part is not as simple as mariners commonly quip.
Man! I wish I could attend this one! I am in the Maritime Industry.
⚓️ Thanks Sal & panel 🌈⚓️ what about reviving the subsidies of the past? Building & Operational Subsidies were a mainstay until trashed by reagan. 😎 I have to mention that corporate farmers got wealthy on subsidies. 😎
ARE U KIDDING...
@@paulcollinseverett2151 nope
Go Sal.Go
Excellent
A great panel. And, yeah, as a parent of a serving army officer attached to a frontline regiment (Ukraine adjacent not Red Sea) I completely get the human element.
SAL GREAT JOB!
The one thing nothing was mentioned as far as absolute needs is that we must have a far more robust ship construction facilities, and a stream line of ship types being produced so that there's no delays due to changes in the ship plans...a Kaiser approach to shop building...and yes, absolutely we need more west coast ports.
Did you mean kaizen approach? Because the Kaiser's approach to shipbuilding in Germany did not lead to impressive results as far as I recall from some of Drach's comments on YT. @drachinifel
@@mark7321He’s referring to Henry J. Kaiser and his assembly line approach to building Liberty Ships in San Francisco Bay which was later adopted by other yards around the country to build other Liberty Ships and other ship classes.
*Lol.... The whispering at the start of the video, freaked me out a little bit, at first because I did not see the 2 men next to Big Sal whispering to each other...* 😂😂
*What state was this filmed in? I live in Baltimore, born & raised for 29 years and I would have loved to sit down & listen to this in person. Not sure if it was open to the public, it looks like there were only a few people there, sadly, so it's hard to tell if it was a open & public event or a private, "invite only", event.*
*Thanks for all your hard work, Big Sal! I never thought I'd see the day where you are covering a big event, ESPECIALLY A TRAGIC event, here in Baltimore. It's a shame that it was the Key Bridge collapsing... I still cannot believe it's gone. I've drove over the Key Bridge too many times to count. It still does NOT FEEL REAL.* 😔
Well I'll be.. Great job!
I see the panel has the ideas, enthusiasm, focus and sees the issues facing maritime national security. My question is: What is the next stage in fixing the issues facing the U.S with regards to improving with the end game of resolving some of if not all the issues highlighted by the panel?
Sorry I'm late Dr. Capt. Sal!
Nice job, Sal. You’re not done with your introductions but I can already tell this will be great.
SAL, the Merchant Marine has and alway will play an important part, in a country Naval and Maritime Security.
Whether it is US Merchant Marine, or British Merchant Marine, or European Countries Merchant Marine, as well as International Western Nations own Merchant Marine too.
No one Western Nations Merchant Marine, has the capability to provide for their own Countries demand.
For the level of Commercial Shipping, with regards exports and imports of their own Country.
The Western Nations and their Merchant Marine have to work together, for the good of all Western International Nations Maritime Security.
It is no longer a matter, one nation can do it alone in the West. When you have so many threats, to International Commercial Shipping.
Whether these threats are coming from Yemen, Somilia, Syria, Iraq, Iran, North Korean.
Equally coming from Chinese, both in the size of the Chinese Navy, but maybe more importantly from the Chinese and Hong Kong Merchant Marine.
Then lastly directly coming from President Putin and his Soviet Russian Regime, who clear want to expand Russia influence on World affairs.
As well as a clear Russian Military threats to all Russia Neighbours, not just those in Western Europe!
The Western Nations need to increase ship building capability, so to help increase Western Nations Merchant Marine capability.
While Western Shipping Building is increased, would help Western Nations building more Warships, for their own Navy's and Coast Guard Service and Allies too.
The US and the British, Canadian, Australian's and New Zealanders, plus Western European Nations too.
Whether the Italians, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finish, German, Dutch, French Greek Governments.
All need to increase the number of Commercial Shipping Vessels, registered with their Countries by hundreds of vessels.
It is not a matter of just more Oil Tankers or LGP Tankers, it is a matter of Roll-on Roll-off Vehicle Transporter Vessels.
As well as a matter of Bulk Carriers and very much a matter of Medium sized Container Ships and Large Container Ships, plus both Very Large Container Ships and Ultra Large Container Ships too.
However, it is a matter of Cruise Ship and Ocean Liners, as well as roll-on to roll-off Passenger Car and Truck Ferries too.
Yes open registry may have to be reduce, making shipping Companies registered their vessels, within their own Countries too.
Even if this mean reviewing tax laws, to encourage shipping companies to home registered!
However, in closing International Maritime Choke Point Security, has to be dealt with International through the United Nations.
No one Country let alone Terrorist Groups, can be allowed to threaten again anyone Maritime Choke Point, as the Houtis has in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
Also all Maritime Choke Points, not just for Commercial Shipping, but for undersea communications cables and pipe lines plus undersea power cables.
Will have to be protected 24/7/52, by International Western Navy's and Coastguard Services, because you cannot count on others to protect these!
Sal MercogliGOATo
Quick question Dr. Mercogliano. What would be the impact to the US interstate highway system if our 18 wheelers began pulling 53 foot containers rather than the 40 foot containers? Wouldn't the 53 foot containers be a lot heavier and damage the interstate more? Do they have plans for how to negate the damage? More wheels? Larger tires?
Answering my own question. We can probably easily ship 53 foot containers via barges through our rivers. The containers would have to shipped to those delta river ports though.
@@lanetatom2701Plus UP atleast claimed they had plenty of space on their intermodal ramps. Their only limitation dealing with 53s will be rolling stock. Loading those containers on trains should be far quicker than onto trucks.
@@kaymish6178 So train them from the east coast to New Orleans I guess.
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If any other federal academy had 25% of graduates opt for another service there would be Congressional outrage and hearings.
Most people ignore the economic security of having US owned and flagged ships. I had someone employed by a major containership/intermodal company tell me that it was more important to get an empty container back to the PRC than have a full one headed to the PRC. This company has a large US flag "store front". It is equally important that US export cargo gets delivered.
Are you unaware of the trade imbalance? _That_ is why getting an empty CONNEX to China is important! Almost all _U.S._ trade with China is investment money going _there_ electronically, or _FOOD!_
@@davidgoodnow269 very, I sailed trans-Pac container ships for many years. However, a true national flag makes sure your exports leave your country. In this case Maritime Security Program vessels are controlled by non-American countries. What do you think will happen when the PRC states that any shipping company siding with the US against the PRC will no longer be allowed to enter their ports?
@@StevenPalmer-cs5ix Since that happened a couple of decades ago, it's not hard to guess.
But, as I said, the U.S. physical exports to China are pretty well limited to FOOD.
Food that China CANNOT produce enough of for its population to not have _mass starvation._
When Trump placed export tarrifs on China -- specifically, those were on _food,_ which China had long been manipulating purchase prices paid by processors to depress the prices paid to farmers and ranchers, pig and chicken producers, as China owns almost every meat processor in the United States of America and the grain elevators and processing plants in most of the U.S. -- which forced China to divert the shipments they would normally buy _HERE,_ at bottom-dollar, to buying through third nations *at the going world rate,* and even *that* made something like a 50% jump in those commodities!
If China embargoes shipping away from the U.S., China starves.
It would be much more practical for China to do as it did during the lock-down, and limit or ban its producers from selling in the U.S. while diverting all meat to China.
That's why the price of beef doubled, here, in 2020, despite all meat processing plants working around-the-clock. That relieved the strain of the lock-down in China, where many producers were required to kill their entire herds and bury them. Facts you can check.
Hey Sal, glad you are constantly covering our Maritime National Security issues. Regarding US Naval Shipbuilding limitation issues you've pointed out before, did you catch this innovation covered by sandbox that the Navy found a way to avoid the need to build new strike group Destroyers by solving their weapons reloading Logistics problem? See this part of the video:
ruclips.net/video/yjIe4haGfAg/видео.htmlsi=Uuh0WDRss-QCqSRL&t=1293
And they do this at a fraction of the cost of building new Destroyers they would otherwise need. Would be great if you did a video breaking this down in more detail from what you know. thx.
Ports on the west coast aren't set up for 53 foot containers. Bombcarts, training, etc.
Longshore workers COULD do the work on chassis, but you're talking about 10 years of infrastructure upgrade before 53 foot containers could be moved efficiently. Because, currently, "They" can't even fill potholes at the port of Oakland.
Ten years? Nah.
It might take that long due to West Coast bungeling, but I have worked that kind of construction project -- in scale and equipment needed and used -- and the work to refit an existing port, taking twice as long as building a new one, would take about three months of prep and about three months of construction. The prep would include fixing the roads and yards. Been there, done that.
The same scale of work in California did take eight to ten years, you're right about that, but none of the extra time had to do with the job itself!
@@davidgoodnow269 exactly 💯. Thanks D
I see 7 people in the audience. Sad! Good thing it gets more view this way.
Perhaps a partial solution to the shortage of mariners would be to establish a system of recruiters that could be paired with some Coast Guard and/or Navy recruiting offices. Do the maritime academies recruit from trade schools or at least advertise the opportunities of a maritime career? I see plenty of trade school students moving into the construction trades, but none that I know have ever considered maritime service or even realize that was an option.
That was interesting.
BASED
This is all WAAAYYYY above your pay grade.
@@Look_What_You_Did give ceasar what belongs to ceasar and god what belongs to god.
Well this is different. 😊
I grew up in Texas and was interested in the merchant marine but my guidance counselor couldn’t any info (1981). Now, in the internet age, this info is easy to find. How about a little bit of outreach?
Why is the Sec'y of Transportation not there?
@14:50 Curious what survival is meant here. Our survival as a dominant hegemony, perhaps.
When shipping is outsourced to save money, we have a problem in the cost of shipping.
"The emphasis on unmanned vessels is for time of war . . . "
That may be the stupidest thing I have heard all year so-far, and it's been a Hell of a year.
The rest of the panel may be respected -- and I welcome them, as an opportunity to learn they exist, so that I may learn who to learn from -- but, and I mean this kindly, _people tend to think the person who doesn't stumble in their speech, knows what they are talking about!_ We see this all the time with politicians. That is human nature. So, _please,_ join Toastmasters!
Do those people [politicians] _really_ know _why_ they say the things they say? Probability of them knowing _so many_ subjects so broadly _and_ so deeply as to have formed a meaningful opinion . . . no. They are just _good at being_ heard!
EDIT: This is the problem with not making failures public. If that one guy who said something *_I_* know to be incredibly stupid, despite the fact that it _seems_ like a bright idea, has important influence _and_ deeply gets that, "Loose lips sink ships," maybe the Vice Admiral can read him in (if _she_ was read in).
Where are Merchant Mariners Unions representatives in this debate ,they’re holding important 🔑 .
That's a very blue room
Hey Sal all this is good, but there isn’t any private corporate representative on this discussion who can answer some questions ways we loosing merchants mariners because we don’t built enough ships in US or we don’t need them anymore?
It's probably an issue of outsourcing and costs. Buying ships built elsewhere, flagged elsewhere, and crewed by non-americans is always going to be cheaper but incurs increased risk.
@7:00 China enacted a law that ships have to *unlawfully* check in if they have cargo that meets certain conditions. Sounds like a law to me, sir, and a reasonable one at that.
Heck yeah
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@27:00 I'll never understand the need to "fight" China, our main trading partner, because they are...so big? What is the goal here, to cripple our trading partner? To have a larger share of commercial shipping? Do we want a shipping monopoly? Did we not think that spending 50 years moving (most of) our manufacturing there would have this effect? Nobody over 40 ever says "that was dumb, we shouldn't have done that," and God help you if you say you want to make America great again, though in effect that's what you want.
“It’s going to be what the US congress writes”
Good luck with that.
Disappointed - there was scope there for a multi star drinking game! ;)
I don't understand why the US feels they have to push the 53 foot container standard onto the international shipping industry. Why throw another container standard into the mix?
Is The Utility In Foreign Ships A Viable Argument For A Invasion On The American Coasts?What I Mean If Our Forces Are Downed,How Much Of A Threat Is The Communist/Soviet Fleet In A That Scenario?
That's a cool cadet XD
*The immature kid in me, would have had a tough time holding back a laugh when one of the speakers said "We Need Able Body Seamen"* 😂😂😂
Without a doubt (by me, at least) the US Navy should be dominating the planet's oceans and waterways. Until there's a shift in capitalism, we will suffer at home. To sanction and tariff is a waste when we could easily control shipping. The Houthis and Iran have been treated far too lightly. Instead of financing the weapons industry, we ought to build a navy and control our ports.
Good thing you're not in charge then.
What is the transportation secretary stance on these issues?
This is a bit like being an Australian without a submarine for twenty years.
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