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You can't just magic more cargo shipping capacity out of thin air, the lead times from signing to paperwork to having a container ship sail out of the dock are
by Clewza313 5y ago
You can't just magic more cargo shipping capacity out of thin air, the lead times from signing to paperwork to having a container ship sail out of the dock are measured in years.
It's also very much a boom and bust industry, and there has been a succession of past bubbles that has left shipping companies very wary of building extra capacity only for it to sit around unused.