Landlocked countries face higher transportation costs and delays in importing and exporting merchandise because they lack access to international waters.
Explanation:
A landlocked country is a country that has no coastline. There are disadvantages to being a landlocked country because you need the permission of other countries to access international waters. Particularly before the invention of railways and air travel being landlocked affected the degree of trade a country carried out and how much the trade cost. The landlocked countries also tend to have low Human Development Indices (HDI) are landlocked including Bolivia, Ethiopia, Niger, and Nepal. Even in modern times being landlocked has disadvantages because of transport costs and goods take a long time to exit ports as you rely on other countries who prioritize their own shipments first.
