What the Ship (Ep119)| Office of Shipbuilding | CMA CGM | Panama Canal | Hong Kong | Everything Else

What the Ship (Ep 119) | Ships Act, Tariffs, US Trade Representative and the Office of Shipbuilding (+ top 10 reasons for US shipping problems); CMA CGM Investment in the US and Tripling the Size of APL; BlackRock/TiL Buy Hutchinson Ports and MSC Grows; Hong Kong Seeing a Flight from the Flag: and the Houthis, Iran, Russia, and EU

March 7, 2025

In this episode, Sal Mercogliano—a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner — reviews the top 10 maritime stories as of March 7, 2025.

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