The Geoje Shipyard Boasts the World’s Greatest Dock Turnover Rate
The dock turnover rate is the number of ships that a dock can launch ships. The greater the turnover rate indicates the more sophisticated shipbuilding capacity and production efficiency.
In addition, dock turnover rate is the most reliable yardstick for measuring shipyard’s technical capacity and production efficiency. The largest dock at SHI’s Geoje Shipyard, Dock No.3,is 640m long, 97.5m wide, and 13m deep.
Marine Link has an article, “S. Korea Shipyards Soar as U.S. Bill Eyes Navy, USCG Ship Construction Options” that reports
Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and John Curtis (R-UT) have introduced two new bills aimed at enhancing the readiness and capabilities of the United States Navy and Coast Guard. The “Ensuring Naval Readiness Act” and the “Ensuring Coast Guard Readiness Act” seek to modernize shipbuilding processes and strengthen partnerships with allied nations to expedite maritime procurement.
The Coast Guard bill would allow”... the Coast Guard to construct a vessel or a major component of the hull or superstructure in a foreign shipyard if:
• The shipyard is located in a NATO country or in an Indo-Pacific country with which the U.S. has a current mutual defense agreement;
• The cost is cheaper in such shipyard than would otherwise be in a domestic shipyard;
• The Commandant of the Coast Guard to certifies, prior to construction of a U.S. vessel, that the foreign shipyard is not owned or operated by a Chinese company or multinational domiciled in China
Of course this is only a bill.
Chuck Hill's CG Blog 
Hello Chuck,
In regards to Congressional Oversight, what is the Coast Guard’s relationship with the Senate Armed Services Committee and the House Armed Services Committee?
There are several provisions in the Ensuring Coast Guard Readiness Act bill directing the USCG to provide reports to both the Senate Armed Services Committee and the House Armed Services Committee in addition to other congressional committees. Some of the reports are to be made jointly with the Navy (ex., Polar Security Cutter) others to be made singularly by the USCG.
Do you think these are one-off situations or the beginning of a trend in which the Congressional Armed Services Committees will exercise increased oversight of the USCG??
This is news to me, but in previous years Coast Guard leadership had to testify before numerous committees. Too many really.
I like the idea that the Coast Guard is to be taken seriously as an armed service.
/FYI – A bill to establish a Secretary of the Coast Guard is announced
https://www.rickscott.senate.gov/2025/4/sen-rick-scott-announces-bill-to-establish-a-secretary-for-the-u-s-coast-guard
The bill would leave the Coast Guard in DHS and simply add another layer of political appointee oversight, something I don’t think we need.
The Coast Guard should be an independent agency perhaps incorporating NOAA and parts of the Corps of Engineers.
Our eleven missions never all fit in one department so the Coast Guard, which enjoys strong bipartisan support in Congress, gets shorted in any department on the assumption that the Department has to support the less popular agencies within the Department and Congress will make up the difference for the CG.
To some extent it works, but really the CG never gets the advocacy the service deserves.