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by Clewza313 1820 days 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.