I am also sceptical that airships will ever be big. They do have advantages over ocean freight (not everyone lives near a major sea port, or any sea port.) I'm

I am also sceptical that airships will ever be big. They do have advantages over ocean freight (not everyone lives near a major sea port, or any sea port.) I'm not sure if your price includes road transport, or rail, depending on where you are. Sea is obviously a Lao quite slow. Air freight is expensive, and also somewhat limited airports. In some parts of the world there are lots of those, but most freight travels to a major centre, then trucks etc. I see airships as more of a "trucking" compeditor. Theoretically it can load and unload with minimal ground infrastructure. And it can go places trucks can't go. Yet with all of that the killer problem (literally) seems to be weather. It's hard to see how that problem is reliably solved.