Certainly! Or many other ways that we can't even think about.

If the economic incentive is there, solutions will flourish.

I wonder if drone powered delivery would be a way to circumvent this chokepoint.

Signal312

That's a good point. Interesting how ports introduce a form of centralization and it got exploited...

But maybe precisely because of that an incentive to skip ports/hubs should be introduced. For example, if the tax is 100% of the good's price, it should make economical sense to go around the port.

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m0wer

That's a good point. Interesting how ports introduce a form of centralization and it got exploited...

But maybe precisely because of that an incentive to skip ports/hubs should be introduced. For example, if the tax is 100% of the good's price, it should make economical sense to go around the port.