>but reducing the ships' speed will reduce the rate and the price at which you can potentially deliver said products
(Emphasis mine)
The moon rock argument would be solid if the prices were to rise, but by your own admission, it would lower them. The regulation just bans "high-speed" expensive shipping.
As another commenter has stated, this will just make time-sensitive shipments to switch to the cheapest alternative, and for non-time-sensitive items like consumer goods, this will just mean higher stockpiling in origin.
As anyone who has work on In-demand manufacturing will tell you, the slower the transport the higher the waste.
>but reducing the ships' speed will reduce the rate and the price at which you can potentially deliver said products (Emphasis mine)
The moon rock argument would be solid if the prices were to rise, but by your own admission, it would lower them. The regulation just bans "high-speed" expensive shipping.
As another commenter has stated, this will just make time-sensitive shipments to switch to the cheapest alternative, and for non-time-sensitive items like consumer goods, this will just mean higher stockpiling in origin.
As anyone who has work on In-demand manufacturing will tell you, the slower the transport the higher the waste.