[4CJ]

Good quote, but the fact is that the North got paid for that shipping. Simple economics, and economies of scale. It would probably be cost prohibitive for the South to create it's own shipping fleet. And of course the North isn't going to be advocating that it foster competition.

[Non-Sequitur]

Of course it would have been prohibitive since the infrastructure for such an industry did not exist and there is no evidence that anyone down south wanted to foster one. You can complain about economic bondage to the North but with all the agricultural wealth that the south produced they short-sightedly decided to sink it back into plantation agriculture rather than diversify. Your problems were of your own making.