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Strengthening the U.S.
Maritime Industrial Base

AMIC is an industry-led facilitation and coordination platform designed to strengthen and operationalize the U.S. maritime industrial base.

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Policy to Action

The United States has renewed its commitment to maritime revitalization through historic legislation and federal leadership. AMIC aims to bridge the execution divide between:

  • Federal maritime strategy and legislation, and
  • the private-sector capabilities required to deliver results.
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OUR MISSION

Coordination that moves. Execution that matters.

AMIC is where America's maritime industry organizes to rebuild. We map industrial capacity, match partners to projects, and deliver actionable intelligence—bridging the gap between policy mandates and on-the-ground execution.

AMIC operates as a neutral, membership-based industrial platform, an execution-oriented coalition, and a coordination and matchmaking layer.

Our Capabilities

Where We Work

AMIC concentrates on three interconnected priorities:

Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding

Commercial and defense vessel construction capacity across U.S. yards.

Industrial Base

Industrial Base

The supply chain, component manufacturing, and production infrastructure that shipbuilding depends on.

Workforce

Workforce

The skilled workers, training pipelines, and apprenticeship programs required to scale.

White Papers

AMIC leads development of the U.S. Maritime Revitalization Agenda—an industry-driven framework for rebuilding America's maritime capacity.

In October 2025, 49 maritime leaders convened at the SHIPPINGInsight Leadership Roundtable to identify the structural barriers to U.S. maritime growth. The result was a constraint-based analysis—five barriers and an implementation roadmap—now being operationalized through AMIC. The framework is recognized in the context of the 2025 National Security Strategy.

AMIC Whitepapers

Project 2027 Executive Summary

Findings from SHIPPINGInsight 2026 on Expanding the U.S.-Flag and U.S.-Built Fleet

Presents key findings from the SHIPPINGInsight 2026 conference and Leadership Roundtables, detailing the structural challenges facing U.S. maritime competitiveness—including the significant cost gap between domestic and foreign shipbuilding, lack of long-term cargo commitments, and permitting delays—while proposing solutions such as a distinct U.S. flag category for international trade, allied co-production, standard designs, and Maritime Prosperity Zones to revitalise the industry.

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Midterm Elections and the Maritime Agenda

Outlook for the SHIPS for America Act, Maritime Executive Orders, Prosperity Zones, and China Port Fees

Analyzes how the November 3 midterm elections will shape the speed and path of the U.S. maritime agenda, focusing on the SHIPS for America Act’s ride-along status in the NDAA, the bipartisan but politically fragile tax credits for shipyards, the vulnerability of executive orders in a divided Congress, and the looming January 2027 deadline for China port fees.

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Identifying the Ecosystem for Revitalizing the U.S. Maritime Industry

Administrator Carmel’s Five-Pillar Architecture and the SHIPS for America Act

A forum report from the National Maritime Week Leadership Forum (May 20, 2026) outlining the federal strategy to build a next-generation maritime system. It details the Five-Pillar Architecture—Cargo Generation, Resilient Logistics, Workforce Revitalization, Modernized Shipyard Capacity, and Innovation Ecosystem—arguing that U.S. competitiveness rests on capability and technology rather than cost, with the SHIPS for America Act serving as the legislative backbone for execution.

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Maritime Prosperity Zones

From Regional Mobilization to National Coordination

Examines how regional maritime ecosystems across the Pacific Northwest, Gulf Coast, and inland supplier corridors are organizing around the Maritime Action Plan and SHIPS for America Act. Explores how coordinated federal policy, industrial specialization, workforce development, grid readiness, and innovation-driven shipbuilding can rebuild U.S. maritime power through strategically designed Maritime Prosperity Zones.

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What is a Maritime Prosperity Zone?

An Industry Design Assessment of H.R. 9911 and H.R. 9921

An AMIC white paper and webinar assessment of two July 2026 bills aimed at supporting the U.S. maritime industrial base. It identifies key design flaws in H.R. 9911 (Qualified Opportunity Zones) and H.R. 9921 (Shipyard Investment Tax Credit), noting misalignments in census tract boundaries, designation limits, and effective dates that could hinder decade-long development timelines.

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Revitalizing America's Maritime Power

A National Blueprint for Industrial Renewal, Security, and Competitiveness

Distills the October 2025 SHIPPINGInsight Leadership Roundtable: five structural barriers to U.S. maritime growth and an implementation roadmap, now being operationalized through AMIC.

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U.S. Maritime Revitalization: A Convergence Framework

Industry-Policy Alignment on What Needs to Be Done

Synthesizes roundtable findings with Congressional testimony on the SHIPS for America Act, showing alignment between policymakers and industry on priorities for restoring U.S. maritime strength.

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The Industry Response

Maritime Implications of the 2025 National Security Strategy

Examines how the 2025 NSS makes industrial capacity a core pillar of national power and what that implies for maritime—and why private-sector coordination is a national imperative.

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America's Maritime Action Plan

An Industry Readiness Assessment

A structured industry assessment of the White House's February 2026 Maritime Action Plan (MAP). Finds that the MAP's four pillars and 21 provisions align with AMIC's Maritime Revitalization Agenda—and examines the coordination challenge at the center of implementation.

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Industry Readiness Assessment

Executing America’s Maritime Action Plan Through Coordinated Industrial Strategy

Analyzes how America’s Maritime Action Plan (MAP) aligns with long-standing structural weaknesses in the U.S. maritime industrial base, outlining how shipbuilding, workforce development, cargo policy, and Maritime Prosperity Zones require coordinated private-sector execution to transform federal policy into operational maritime capacity and long-term industrial resilience.

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The Leadership Team

AMIC is led by a team of maritime professionals who adopt a comprehensive and holistic approach. Recognizing the existing gaps between dialogue, government discussions, and commercial realities, our goal is to bridge these gaps. We aim to facilitate and accelerate the nation's shipbuilding capabilities while providing American sealift capacity that meets the requirements for ensuring our national, economic, energy, food, climate, and workforce security.

Dr. Beatriz Canamary

Dr. Beatriz Canamary

Strategic architecture, implementation roadmap, industrial intelligence framework

Jonathan Chia

Jonathan Chia

Financing mechanisms, capital attraction, media/awareness

Dr. Sal Mercogliano

Dr. Sal Mercogliano

Policy intelligence, industry data sources, podcast amplification

Darren Shelton

Darren Shelton

Texas/Gulf Coast regional execution, industrial base connections, case study development

Carleen Lyden Walker

Carleen Lyden Walker

Industry coalition, convening power, event logistics

RADM Jim Watson, USCG (Ret.)

RADM Jim Watson, USCG (Ret.)

Federal alignment, shipyards capacity, gap analysis

Fair Kim

Fair Kim

Partner — Congressional advocacy, legislative strategy, federal relationships

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AMIC is building a network of shipyards, suppliers, ports, technology providers, workforce organizations, and capital partners committed to American maritime industrial strength.

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