NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Cynthia Cook from the Center for International and Strategic Studies about why naval shipbuilding in the U.S. has become so difficult lately.

The USS Gravely, a US Navy warship, departs the Port of Port of Spain on October 30, 2025. AFP via Getty Images US shipbuilding is in trouble. China builds 200 merchant ships a year for every one ...

Launching Liberty: U.S. Sailors and Marines stand on the deck of the USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship, as it passes the Statue of Liberty. The question remains: Can America build ships again?

Two days before Thanksgiving, Navy Secretary John Phelan announced the cancellation of the $22 billion 20 ship Constellation multi-mission frigate program. The ship was meant to be capable of ...

The U.S. Navy will lead the design of these ships along with me, because I’m a very aesthetic person,” the president said.

Is the era of the XXL ship already over? With Celebrity's biggest Edge Class ship, Xcel, coming this November, Royal Caribbean's next super-sized Icon Class ship, Legend of the Seas, set to make its ...

Over the past century, American aircraft carriers have gradually increased in size, typically ranging between 800 and 1,100 feet in length. While the USS Enterprise once held the title of the longest ...