Saronic is announcing Port Alpha, an 800-acre shipyard in Brownsville, Texas — the largest shipyard in the United States — with plans to scale to 4,000 acres, invest billions, create 10,000 jobs, and bring American shipbuilding back to levels not seen since World War II.
In an exclusive announcement, Dino reveals Saronic's Port Alpha — an 800-acre shipyard in Brownsville, Texas (scalable to 4,000 acres) that will be the largest in the US, investing billions and creating 10,000 jobs to restore American shipbuilding to WWII-era capacity. ✦ AI generated
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We've been working on Port Alpha for a long time now. So, Port Alpha, just for the listeners, is our shipyard of the future. This is going to bring American ship building back to a place that we haven't seen since World War II. Um, to be clear, we're already operating a shipyard. We have a shipyard in Franklin, Louisiana. That's where we're building Marauder. We're ramping that up to 20 Marauder. We can bring that up to 50 marauders per year, every single year. And that is a 100 acre shipyard. What we're doing at Port Alpha is 10xing that. We're looking at a shipyard that is well over a thousand acres. We've been doing this search for over a year now on what is the ideal location for this shipyard. Where are we going to find the right partner, the right land, the right workforce, the right community to be a part of? Um, and we're proud to announce that we found that in Brownsville, Texas. So, we're we're headquartered in Austin. We're going to be basing Port Alpha in Brownsville. We're going to start on a 800 acre plot of land, which in and of itself, 800 acres is now the largest shipyard in the United States. Just to give you a sense of scale, we have the opportunity over time to scale that to 4,000 acres. We're going to invest billions of dollars into this project. We're going to create 10,000 jobs over the next 10 years and we're going to bring ship building in this country back again to a place that we haven't seen since World War II.
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36:38audience for the first time. >> That's right. So, we've been working on Port Alpha for a long time now. So, Port Alpha, just for the listeners, is our shipyard of the future. This is going to bring American ship building back to a place that we haven't seen since World War II. Um, to be clear, we're already operating a shipyard. We have a shipyard in Franklin, Louisiana. That's where
37:00we're building Marauder. We're ramping that up to 20 Marauder. We can bring that up to 50 marauders per year, every single year. And that is a 100 acre shipyard. What we're doing at Port Alpha is 10xing that. We're looking at a shipyard that is well over a thousand acres. We've been doing this search for over a year now on what is the ideal location for this shipyard. Where are we going to
37:24find the right partner, the right land, the right workforce, the right community to be a part of? Um, and we're proud to announce that we found that in Brownsville, Texas. So, we're we're headquartered in Austin. We're going to be basing Port Alpha in Brownsville. We're going to start on a 800 acre plot of land, which in and of itself, 800 acres is now the largest shipyard in the
37:46United States. >> Amazing. >> Just to give you a sense of scale, we have the opportunity over time to scale that to 4,000 acres. We're going to invest billions of dollars into this project. We're going to create 10,000 jobs over the next 10 years and we're going to bring ship building in this country back again to a place that we haven't seen since World War II. And
38:08we're just grateful for the partnership from the state, from Governor Abbott, from Cameron County, and then the city and the port of Brownsville for making this happen. >> I mean, this is one of the great things, Vib, about being based in Texas. They let us build things in Texas. Yeah. As a recent resident here, it's pretty amazing to live in a state where the state's like, "What do you want to
38:28build? How can we help?" as opposed to, "Hey, uh, you know, f off like they told uh Elon in California." And he got the message received reply uh to that lunatic. So, maybe you could talk a little bit about operating VIB in Texas and the crazy support you get from Abbott and everybody. >> One of the uh questions that we used to get like back in the day was, "You guys