American Maritime Security Initiative

MV Isa Bella. (Courtesy of TOTE)

The tankers Stena Immaculate and Stena Imperative, which have been reflagged as US registered vessels with US crews. (Courtesy of Crowley Maritime)

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A Cosco Shipping container ship prepares to dock at Yantai, China, on December 29, 2022. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Aerial view of containers sitting stacked on a cargo ship berthed at Nansha Port on April 12, 2020, in Guangzhou, China. (He Weiming/VCG via Getty Images)

The Taiwanese container ship Ever Greet next to a vessel of China's state owned COSCO shipping company in the Rotterdam harbor on March 2, 2022. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

Aerial view of a container ship of COSCO shipping unloading cargoes at the Port of Los Angeles on October 26, 2021 in San Pedro, California. (Photo by Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)

An aerial view shows homes near the Dominguez Hill Tank Farm Oil Storage Terminal.