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What the Ship (Ep 135) | US Shipbuilding | Navy LCS | Coast Guard OPC | SHIPs Act | Navy Frigate (Patreon)

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2025-11-27 05:12:59
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In this episode, Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner — discusses the top US Shipbuilding Stories as of November 27, 2025.

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Richard

Happy Thanksgiving, Sal.

Jim Carlson

This comment is off topic but this morning on this Happy Thanksgiving day, I wrote the below to myself. I was thinking of what I should be thankful for. One working for Bruce my brother and his firm Carlson Software. I would have never met Mike Ross if I didn’t work for my brother. Mike Ross Mike Ross! I met Mike Ross at the underground Cumberland Coal Mine near Waynesburg, PA south of Pittsburgh in the mid 1990’s. Mike Ross was a coal miner overseeing operations at what was once the most productive Long Wall coal mine in the world. I sold Mike his mine mapping software. I learned from Mike Ross how this coal mine with 150 approximately coal miners became the most productive Long Wall coal mine in the history of coal mining. The coal seam was near 10’ thick. The top and bottom 1’ had more impurities, so they Long Walled near 8’ in the middle of the most pure desirable cleanest coal ever. Long Wall coal mining consists of 3 or 4 80’ X 80’ room and pillar mined areas separated by 100’s of feet of one massive long walled out mined area that as you mined forward it would eventually collapse behind you but slowly. Slowly the rooftop would sink down until it breaks under the millions of tons of weight above. Cumberland and Emerald coal mines, sister PA mines, I sold them both their coal mine mapping and planning software. Both these sister PA coal mines fed a local coal fired power plant, with a short rail line from each mine that went directly to the local coal fired power plant. Mike in the 2000’s told me his Cumberland mine won for years running the distinction of being the most productive underground Long Wall coal mine in the world. As Mike Ross was reaching retirement age in the 2010’s during the Obama administration, he told me up was down and down up. Obama’s EPA closed the local coal fired power plant down and not only closed it but mandated it be dismantled and parts sold off to foreign offshore companies, so there would be NO possibility of reopening ever again. Cumberland and Emerald coal mines didn’t close down initially but became less profitable because they sold their coal to Spain or offshore in the 2010’s. The cost to ship by rail their coal to the Baltimore port, cost just as much as it did for them to mine it, not highway robbery but railway robbery. Eventually he retired and lived the rest of his life playing with his grandchildren until his death a few years back. Mike Ross worried for this once great nation. China from 2010 to today built over 1,000 brand new mainland Chinese Coal Fired Power Plants and plans to build 500 more by 2035 capable of producing 70% of the entire mainland Chinese electric power grid if wind and solar energy stopped. Obama’s EPA in 8 years closed over 300 US Coal Fired Power Plants down permanently of the 550 that existed when Obama came to power in 2010. I strongly feel America’s green agenda is a forced subsidized agenda that costs taxpayers and consumers more than they get back. A false charade mandated to redirect taxpayers and energy costs to elites who manufactured this charade called the climate change crisis. There is no weather emergency, never was. Yet this once great nation subsidizes in the trillions of deficit spending to go green. China plays along but still relies on coal for most of its energy needs. How far has America fallen and never to recover? Our political leaders are liars. They lie and how these cowards lie today is beyond belief. Bizarre how they hold on to power as they keep bankrupting the nation with their lies. American taxpayers are 40 trillion in federal taxpayers deficit spent debt arrears and counting. US Commercial Ship Building has also gone the way of coal mining in the US. I also give thanks for Sal’s YouTube channel but it leaves me like Mike Ross, to be worried for this once great nation. I can at least be happy I met Mike Ross and helped him to be more productive and successful prior to Obama’s EPA. Happy Thanksgiving Sal, Jim

Bill Nelson

Good Grief!!! This synopsis is so disheartening! I was thrilled to learn, a few months ago that the US was considering a dramatic increase in shipbuilding! Now, the politics involved is, simply stated, messed up. Sir Sal, enjoy your holiday and come back refreshed and continue to bring us the world of shipping! Bill

Steven Palmer

Thankful that I retired from sailing in 2021. You probably also heard that CMA CGM is rethinking increasing their US flag fleet (aka APL Maritime) to 30 ships. That number currently sits at 11 ships which is an increase from when I retired.

DANA A. NICHOLS

Again, very well done, sir... your credibility and illustrated, fact-checklist briefings give all of us a straight-up, go-to reality source for this complicated, sprawling BS chaos. As a worthy balance, Ward Carroll's YouTube channel (primary focus on naval aviation) offers the perfect book-end news source for your platform -- his recent episodes on Trump's wave-of-the-magic-wand declarations about our aircraft carrier fleet, and stunning figures behind the F-35 reliability and funding black hole, will leave you unable to even blink while you digest the scope of this administration's incompetence and graft.

DANA A. NICHOLS

Somebody in this global biz has it figured out, Sal -- please forgive this non-mariner for mixing cruise ships with merchant marine: since 2001, every year(!), there have been at least nine (9) cruise ships added to our navigable waterways. One of these latest vertical sewage factories has a complement of 7,600 pax! That industry clearly sustains a method of steady profit, even while appearing to casually scrap "last year's model" to stay competitive.