Reinvigorating America’s shipbuilding capacity is a well-known urgent objective of Donald Trump’s second presidency.
One company – drone ship maker Saronic Technologies – initially planned to do its part in that national initiative with a massive $3.2 billion investment in a new port facility and autonomous shipyard planned for Solano County, California, across the bay from San Francisco.
But then reality intervened: Some of the county’s elected officials were indifferent towards the project amid pressure from state officials to aggressively pursue it even though it was publicly known since last year that Saronic was also evaluating the booming Port of Brownsville, Texas, as another potential site…