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10k+ TEU ships need to be made illegal.

• robocat 5y ago
  You appear to make a lot of very low quality comments. Perhaps you could either make more substantial comments, or alternatively make worse comments so we can flag them?
• eru 5y ago
  Why? And under which jurisdictions? Ports and canals already have rules about what ships they accept and what fees they charge. These institutions can change their rules as they see fit. There's no reason to make big ships illegal on the open ocean. And in any case, the economically orthodox answer for dealing negative externalities is to tax them, not ban anything. But that doesn't apply here, because there are no necessary externalities: as said above the ports and canals can deal with this just fine. (Unless there are laws that ban them from making adequate rules. In this case these laws should be fixed.)