Should America Build Its Own Container Line?

The US has 58 flagged containerships. Global competition needs far more.

America helped create modern container shipping.

Today, no US carrier ranks inside the global top 30.

A new Open Markets Institute report proposes a public carrier.

The idea sounds simple.

The reality is much harder.

Here are the 4️⃣ signals that matter. 👇

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1️⃣ America has almost no global liner capacity

The US-flagged fleet has just 58 pure containerships.

That is less than 1% of the global fleet.