>>1979038Not a single one of the largest container ships in the world has been built or operated by a US company, despite it being the world’s largest economy and center of commerce.
Under your own logic, the US has no demand for container ships because there simply isn’t any domestic ships being made.
>INB4 “well they’re all registered in Liberia or Hong Kong” They’re operated and headquartered in countries like China, Japan, South Korea, France, Germany, Spain, and The Netherlands, all major G20 countries that don’t have an exceptionalist take on global trade.