Felixstowe is only temporarily rammed, by the unique short term problems of planning for (a Hard) brexit, and CV stuff like PPE.
>> comes via English ports. If Scotland ends up as an independent country within the EU
It may achieve one, but not the other in our or the next lifetimes. Tho ironically the new UK european deal, the one Sturgeon has whined about, makes the theoretical practicalities of both easier, because NI is now a blueprint.
>> then there is plenty of scope to grow it, while England if not overcrowded is
>> arguably short of good infrastructure
Currently Scottish infrastructure is worse than Englands.
This gives you a great idea of where heavy ports are and how they distributed.
www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Enhanced-W10-loading-gauge-map-of-the-network.pdf
The rest is short shelf life food, that pours through dover on lorries. NO value in stealing that trade.
>> And if Nicola wants
>> to grow the economy then the central belt is a reasonable place to start.
She needs UK money to finance that level of investment. Oil revenue is disappearing. And why should she, nothing* is made in Scotland all they will be staging consumables from Europe to England.
*In relative terms, Ditto England. These isles are a service economy, large volume banging things together will never return, ditto digging stuff out and shipping it out is dead. The only value chain leading upwards is high tech.
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