What the Unprecedented and Ambitious Maritime Action Plan Presented by Trump Establishes – Trade News | 15/02/26

The Maritime Action Plan (MAP) presented by Donald Trump —after nearly a year of preparation and signed by Marco Rubio— represents a strongly national initiative aimed at revitalizing shipbuilding in the United States, based on the premise that vessels should be built domestically, and places at its core the concern over reliance on foreign flags in foreign trade and the decline of the merchant marine; in this context, it stresses the need to strengthen the domestic shipbuilding industry and reduce strategic exposure, at a time when both the United States and Argentina have experienced a decline in naval production, maintain cabotage reserved for national vessels, and rely heavily on foreign fleets for international trade, albeit with significant differences in scale and economic conditions between the two countries. Link to Article