In 2013, Donald Trump complained on Twitter that an “ugly wind farm” planned near his golf course in Scotland would cause problems for maritime traffic.

That’s the last time the US president-elect mentioned shipping on the social media platform that he uses prolifically, according to data from the Trump Twitter Archive, which has catalogued his more than 33,000 tweets.

Yet amid a not-unsurprising dearth of policy pronouncements on the maritime industry, the Republican who takes office on 20 January has fielded a team of cabinet nominees with the deepest maritime background in recent memory.

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