The Hanwha Philly shipyard delivers around 1 ship a year. A South Korean Hanwha shipyard delivers 1 a week.
With the U.S. army on excessive alert amid the Iran war, there’s a nationwide safety disaster nearer to dwelling: the state of the American shipbuilding industry. The nation’s naval shipbuilding program is bloated and gradual, and industrial shipbuilding is close to non-existent. Hanwha, which owns one of many solely U.S. shipyards nonetheless constructing giant industrial…