Trade and the sea

[WARTHOG94]

wouldn't it be nicer if it were possible to send your ships with cargo to sell to a port? always at your expense of both crew and danger, the ship is guided by AI.
I imagined something like this: you buy a product you put it on the hold of your trading ship .. you set the route and the ship goes and returns to the initial port again .. and the ship is visible to all players as if it were a real player perhaps with the writing (trade name of the player) this would make interesting both the trade routes that are created both the defense of convoys and the piracy effect. then whoever wants to be able to do his trades in first person to be safer ..
what do you think?