In the 1970s the Netherlands tried to save it's shipyards (from Japan and Korea at the time China was nothing).
There's just no point to it your oil tankers end up more expensive so nobody will want to buy them.
There's just no point to it your oil tankers end up more expensive so nobody will want to buy them.
navy is different in that it is worth building your own and having that automation just in case.
They have several successful ship building companies today. Is your point that it didn't work? That doesn't seem born out by the reality of today.
> There's just no point to it your oil tankers end up more expensive so nobody will want to buy them.
So the quality is equivalent? And there are no buyers who require high quality in their ships?
The giant container ships and mammoth tankers are all built in Asia.