American Maritime Security Initiative

The final piece of the underwater hull of the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) is lowered into place at Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia on September 28, 2018. (US Navy photo courtesy of Huntington Ingalls Industries by John Whalen)

A ship under construction on February 28, 2024, in Yangzhou, China. (Photo by Meng Delong/VCG via Getty Images)

Construction of NSMV Patriot State in Philadelphia. (Courtesy of TOTE Maritime)

The tankers Stena Immaculate and Stena Imperative, which have been reflagged as US registered vessels with US crews. (Courtesy of Crowley Maritime)

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A Cosco Shipping container ship prepares to dock at Yantai, China, on December 29, 2022. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Aerial view of containers sitting stacked on a cargo ship berthed at Nansha Port on April 12, 2020, in Guangzhou, China. (He Weiming/VCG via Getty Images)

The Taiwanese container ship Ever Greet next to a vessel of China's state owned COSCO shipping company in the Rotterdam harbor on March 2, 2022. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

Aerial view of a container ship of COSCO shipping unloading cargoes at the Port of Los Angeles on October 26, 2021 in San Pedro, California. (Photo by Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)