In the US, Donald Trump's battle against the development of ecological energy sources, such as wind and solar on which, according to the current US government administration, does not You can rely on it, it also involved the ports. He was reinstalled in the White House on June 20, the same day Trump had sent several members of the government a memorandum with to which announced the withdrawal of the authorization to issue new concessions for wind energy, or the renewal of those already in force, relating to all areas within the platform Continental External.

Now Trump's axe blow on energy development has also hit ports. The Secretary of State Transportation, Sean P. Duffy, has in fact announced the cancellation of a financing program worth a total of 679 million of dollars allocated to 12 offshore wind projects that - has said Duffy - are doomed to failure. These are funding of about 427 million dollars for a project under the INFRA (Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects) and the cancellation of six projects and the interruption of five others by the US Maritime Administration (MARAD) for which the loans of 177 million and 75 million respectively Dollars.

"Wind projects, which involve waste," he argued Duffy - are using resources that might otherwise be intended for the revitalization of the American maritime industry. Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg (Secretary of Transportation in the previous administration led by Biden, ed.) have made the leaps to use transport funds for their Green New Scam program, ignoring the urgent needs of our shipbuilding industry. Thanks to President Trump we are giving priority to real infrastructure improvements over phantom wind projects that cost a lot and offer little".

Duffy then announced that the Trump administration has redirected the Department of Transport and MARAD to the task of rebuilding the capacity of the shipbuilding industry and towards the use of traditional forms of energy that - highlighted - are more reliable and towards the use of abundant natural resources of the country. Where possible - has specified - the funding previously allocated to these projects will be redistributed to support important modernisation of port and other primary infrastructures infrastructure needs.