“Most goods entering Puerto Rico must make a pitstop in Florida.”
This also pretty much prevents any global shipping competition from foreign ships in the US, which isn’t a huge deal for the contiguous 48 US states thanks to freight rail, but for states and territories like Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, and Puerto Rico, that’s obviously not an option.
to ship a standard-size container from New York to Puerto Rico than it is from New York to Jamaica , even though Jamaica is only slighter farther than Puerto Rico. Likewise, it’s more expensive to ship the same produce from Los Angeles to Hawaii than from Los Angeles to Shanghai.
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