shipbuilding

Apparently up until 1981, the US had the Construction differential subsidy program [1][2] that subsided shipbuilding construction.

Halifax and North Vancouver are attracting welders due to the 10 years of shipbuilding contracts for the federal government.

Similarly Switzerland might make drugs, chocolate and watches, while Greece excels in shipping & shipbuilding.

India was already one of the largest Shipbuilding nation and had more Aircraft maintenance centers than most other countries in 1950s.

However if the military doesn't keep the industry up-to-date technologically, a shipbuilding tech gap could form, which might impact national security.

We would be happy to sell you as many as you want as the global shipbuilding industry is doing extremely badly.

It stems from back when nails were relatively precious, and used in shipbuilding.

Now the top 10 shipbuilding countries are in China, Korea, or Japan [3][4].

Commercial shipbuilding in the US has long sailed.

> South Korea are great at consumer electronics South Korea is also strong in shipbuilding.

Europe in the 14th to 16th centuries saw massive deforestation in England, Germany, and elsewhere, and the state had to reserve stands of large timber as a military resource for shipbuilding.

The problem is akin to someone in the shipbuilding business worrying about the discovery of a beam that can reduce the strength of a 1-cm thick steel plate to 1-cm thick toilet paper--and the effect is not attenuated by normal matter.