Green Shipping Line

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in the United States, and Thanksgiving 2022 occurs on Thursday, November 24. In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn’t until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War , that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November. Thanksgiving at Plymouth  In September 1620, a small ship called the Mayflower left Plymouth, England, carrying 102 passengers—an assortment of religious separatists seeking a new home where they could freely practice their faith and other individuals lured by the promise of prosperity and land ownership in the "New World." After a treacherous and uncomfortable crossing that lasted 66 days, they dropped anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, far nort...

The US needs a larger Navy, but  first American shipping and   shipbuilding must be revived By   Julianna Lee and Brent D. Sadler W ith the Navy’s eyes set on achieving a goal well above Congress’ mandated 355 manned warships, the American shipbuilding industry has a lot of work to do. Unfortunately, the industry’s current state doesn’t offer much hope for meeting those goals, let alone sustaining a modestly larger fleet. In a 2021 report on U.S. defense supply chains, The Heritage Foundation’s Maiya Clark explained what is called a “Fragility and Criticality” assessment. That’s a tool used by the Department of Defense to identify and mitigate weaknesses in the defense industrial base. Fragility can be understood as how likely disruption is to a certain “  product or service ,” while criticality indicates how difficult it would be to replace the item. Applying that tool to U.S. Navy shipbuilding reveals that America is a far cry from its former status as a ...

Breaking News!!! There will be no offshore wind industry in the United States without marine assets to transport components to the offshore fields for installation. This is the missing link that seems to have been ignored for the last five years. I do not care if it’s a self-propelled barge, tug and barge, feeder, or installation vessel (of which the United States only has one to be ready by the end of 2023) – frankly, we need them all. However, unless and until this missing link of the offshore wind supply chain is put into place, the promise that offshore wind offers the United States both now and in the future cannot be attained. Build all the marshaling ports, and plants to produce components for blades, towers, nacelles, transition pieces, substations, etc. Dream about floating platforms. Fine, but all these components and assemblies have to be delivered by water. And here is a second reality. The only group capable of building the needed marine assets are the workers in the Metal...