it was an issue because they had to keep traveling back and forth. And sometimes their would be difficulties with their boats, horses. People also caught sicknessess and some would die on the journey
trade was an issue for colonial merchants because there was pirates, for example there were spanish bringing coco beans from the aztec empire and there was british ships/ dutch ships that would pirate them so whoever had the strongest navy woulod have better control over colonies which is why brithish came on top.
