I would expect Mexico to put up a massive port.
Even with whatever level of bribes, graft and theft it would be massively cheaper and faster to get goods into central and west US.
With the LA/LB issues, it seems like a huge long term win.
Hell.. the cartels could fund it and they’d have a huge win all around.
I believe that other ports - especially Houston and Savannah - have benefitted greatly from LA's union/democrat port chaos.
responding to myself...
IF the cartels put up a port on the scale of a LA/LB...
That could do for the cartels what casino gambling did for organized crime here.
The amount of money they could launder through.
legit payroll and benefits of a massive workforce. Put every street thug on the pay roll with Medical and PTO and a 401k!
massive transportation infrastructure, and control of nearly every aspect.
“I would expect Mexico to put up a massive port.”
They already have them. For instance, The Port of Lázaro Cárdenas (Spanish: [ˈlasaɾo ˈkaɾðenas] is the largest Mexican seaport and one of the largest seaports in the Pacific Ocean basin with an annual traffic capacity of around 25 million tons of cargo and 2,200,000 TEU (twenty foot containers). When you tack that on the major ports at Ensenada, Mazatlan, and Manzanillo, those are the four majors on the Pacific side and could produce a large competition with the American ports. There are four more big ports on the Gulf of Mexico side.
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