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  Interesting read John but I will stick with present, the past we can do nothing about. You refer to the old London Docks being sold off to private developers. I was brought 50 yards from the entrance to the Victoria & Albert and remember the vibrancy of stevedores going back and forth 7 days week at times. Eventually it was found that deep sea shipping got a cheaper and quicker turnaround in Antwerp and Rotterdam. Dover is a different matter after the fight to sell of the port by DPPT forced the then Government to think up a way the Dover citizens could get some benefit to the town to balance things up.
  
  The Minister last year decreed it to be a community port meaning that they appoint three community directors on high salaries to work 3 days a week who were supposed to be in place by January 1st, seems clear that they won't be appointed until they have completed what they set out to do.
  
  I am going by memory so please feel free to make corrections.

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