Turning the Ship Around | Sunday on 60 Minutes

The Trump administration is highlighting the decline of U.S. shipbuilding as a national security crisis, according to a 60 Minutes segment airing Sunday. The U.S. currently produces roughly three large cargo ships annually compared to China's approximately 1,000, a gap the White House attributes to decades of policy failures and underinvestment in the domestic maritime industry. The administration views the disparity as a strategic vulnerability that could hamper America's ability to project power and maintain economic competitiveness in global shipping. Revitalizing American shipbuilding capacity has become a focus of the Trump administration's broader effort to rebuild domestic industrial capacity. The story explores how the U.S. shipbuilding sector deteriorated and what steps are being considered to restore it.