The Emperor Has No Clothes by Joseph Keefe @ Maritime Professional
All the Chinese crap in Wal-Mart is not coming to us in US-flagged vessels. Our shipyards can’t build ‘em at a competitive price, and Seafarer’s International Union members won’t work for the same pay a Filipino seaman accepts.
H/T: infocyde
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I read somewhere that around 1968-1970, a brand new Merchant Marine Academy graduate, was making as a starting salary the equiv in 2010 dollars over $1o0,000.
Sounds like they priced themselves right out of jobs.
no licensed engineer has priced himself out of a job. No license marine engineer is voluntarily unemployed in the USA today…..
How might you know that, Al? Are you a licensed marine engineer? If you are, what do you think about the USMM these days?