A cargo airship is slower than a freight jet and only a few times faster than a cargo ship. Even the relatively "small" PANAMAX container ships can carry 5000

A cargo airship is slower than a freight jet and only a few times faster than a cargo ship. Even the relatively "small" PANAMAX container ships can carry 5000TEU. If you had an airship that could carry 50TEU (I'm being extremely generous there) you'd need 100 trips (200 total ocean crossings crossings) to equal a single smaller sized container ship. If your airships are only four times faster than container ships you'll need 50 of them to carry the same amount of freight as that single ship. If 20 days is too long a wait air freight (heavier than air) already exists. It also deals with weather by simply flying over it. So you'd need some sort of cargo that was too time sensitive for sea freight but not so sensitive or valuable enough for traditional air freight. But it couldn't be too sensitive or valuable because airships are very sensitive to weather, wind especially, so can only really operate in very clear weather with low winds at departure and arrival.