From all the news and such I've seen about this is missing the longer-term impact of the system. Yes, in the near-term it will take up the needed capacity that

From all the news and such I've seen about this is missing the longer-term impact of the system. Yes, in the near-term it will take up the needed capacity that the Panama canal cannot meet currently due to bottlenecks and price increases, but I believe the longer term is to exploit NAFTA/USMCA by building a manufacturing sector in Oaxaca and Veracruz that uses imported high-technology parts and builds the items there for export to US. It's already a tried system in Baja California: import the LED/LCD panels from China, assemble in Mex, export to US. The issue being that Mexico for a country with massive coastlines only has a handful of good deep water ports, especially on the west coast with Lazaro Cardenas, the busiest port in all of Mexico [1], only takes as much tonnage as Port of St. Louis, the 21st US busiest port [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_seaports_in_Mexico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_seaports_in_Mexico [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ports_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ports_in_the_United_St...