Can ICE Pact Salvage American Shipbuilding?

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🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Three sharp directors on the National Security Council staff invited Ryan over to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to chat about the Icebreaker Collaboration Effort, or ICE Pact, which is a trilateral partnership between the United States, Canada, and Finland that's aimed at delivering the icebreakers America needs while also jump-starting U.S. competitiveness and power in shipbuilding overall.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the War on the Rocks podcast on strategy, defense, and foreign affairs.
0:13.9	My name's Ryan Evans, I'm the founder of Warren the Rocks.
0:16.4	In this episode we're talking about ice breakers and how they might juice American
0:20.1	shipbuilding.
0:21.1	Here with me on this episode is William Hennigan, the National
0:24.4	Security Council Director for International Economics, Robert Obeda, the
0:28.1	NSC Director for Infrastructure and Investments, who's detailed from the Treasury
0:32.0	Department over to the National Security Council,
0:34.4	and Selina Laidga, the Director for Maritime and Arctic Security, detailed from the U.S. Coast Guard
0:39.6	where she's an officer. Hope you enjoy the show. Ice Pact is a trilateral agreement between the
0:46.1	United States, Finland, and Canada that we announced on the sidelines of the NATO
0:49.7	summit this year, which is essentially a partnership to build ice breakers together.
0:55.0	There are three components to it.
0:56.8	There is an agreement to share the information associated with building these ice breakers.
1:01.6	There is a second component to develop our
1:04.3	respective workforces and then there is a third component to funnel global
1:08.8	demand for those icebreakers into our three respective countries and the associated
1:14.0	shipyards. So I have a bunch of questions about this but starting why so I
1:18.6	get Canada I get Finland too I mean they're you know they have the high north
1:22.1	but there's other Nordic countries
1:23.8	with Arctic equities. Why Finland and not some of the other Scandinavian countries?
1:28.1	I think the it comes down to shipyards. The Helsinki shipyard in Finland is
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