{"id":8753,"date":"2025-05-01T20:07:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T20:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=8753"},"modified":"2025-05-01T20:07:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T20:07:05","slug":"video-kelly-and-allies-reintroduce-ships-for-america-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=8753","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Kelly and allies reintroduce SHIPS for America Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    VIDEO: Kelly and allies reintroduce SHIPS for America Act<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>At a Capitol Hill press conference yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/op-ed-how-the-ships-for-america-act-can-restore-u-s-maritime-leadership\/\">Senator Mark Kelly<\/a> (D.-Ariz), Senator Todd Young (R.-Ind.), Representative Trent Kelly (R.-Miss-01), Representative John Garamendi (D.-Calif-08), and industry leaders announced the reintroduction of the SHIPS for America Act, landmark legislation to revitalize the United States shipbuilding and commercial maritime industries<\/p>\n<p>One thing that emerged from the Capitol Hill event is that the measure has overwhelming industry support. In addition to the lawmakers, the press conference featured remarks from key supporters, including Matt Paxton, President of the Shipbuilders Council of America; Chief Mate Elizabeth Livi of the Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots; and Michael Fossum, Superintendent of the Texas A&amp;M Maritime Academy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kelly SHIPS for America Act press conference\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qXFzUsv53RQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere are currently 80 U.S.-flagged vessels in international commerce. [\u2026] China has 5,500. The United States commercial maritime industry cannot keep pace with China\u2019s shipbuilding and maritime fleet, and it\u2019s driving up costs and threatening our national security. It means that so many of the products that get shipped to American ports, put on trains or trucks, and sent to stores everywhere from Arizona to Indiana are on Chinese ships, built with subsidies from the Chinese government, and at a price set by Chinese companies,\u201d said Kelly. \u201cSo, that\u2019s why today we\u2019re reintroducing the SHIPS for America Act, which is without a doubt the most ambitious effort in a generation to revitalize the U.S. shipbuilding and commercial maritime industries and counter China\u2019s dominance over the oceans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The legislation was introduced in the previous Congress. What\u2019s very different this time round is that it is being reintroduced on the heels of President Trump\u2019s wide-ranging executive order on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/04\/restoring-americas-maritime-dominance\/\">Restoring America\u2019s Maritime Dominance.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth comparing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/industry-applauds-wide-ranging-trump-executive-order-on-maritime\/\">highlights of the executive order <\/a>with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kelly.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SHIPS-for-America-Act_Section-by-Section_4.30.2025.pdf\">section-by-section provision<\/a>s of the SHIPS for America Act \u2013which is being introduced in the Senate in two pieces, the SHIPS for America Act and the Building SHIPS in America Act.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of overlap and, with rebuilding American maritime now being a priority of the executive branch and gathering strong congressional support, industry hopes are riding high.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/video-kelly-and-allies-reintroduce-ships-for-america-act\/\">VIDEO: Kelly and allies reintroduce SHIPS for America Act<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/\">Marine Log<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Nick Blenkey<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/news\/video-kelly-and-allies-reintroduce-ships-for-america-act\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=video-kelly-and-allies-reintroduce-ships-for-america-act\">Go to marinelog<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIDEO: Kelly and allies reintroduce SHIPS for America Act At a Capitol Hill press conference yesterday, Senator Mark Kelly (D.-Ariz), Senator Todd Young (R.-Ind.), Representative Trent Kelly (R.-Miss-01), Representative John Garamendi (D.-Calif-08), and industry leaders announced the reintroduction of the SHIPS for America Act, landmark legislation to revitalize the United States shipbuilding and commercial maritime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,199,4104,1483],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-8753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marinelog","category-news","category-senator-mark-kelly","category-ships-for-america-act","tag-marinelog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}