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  I have left some out,till I came up to this one.
  
  Representation Ref no 6
  
  I believe that wholesale privatistion of any major port infrastructure is mistaken and, in the long term, counter productive for both the local and the nation as a whole.
  
  The current trust status has served the port and the town well for over 400years and has always allowed adaptation and expansion to meet the changing and increasing demands of the shipping services out of Dover.
  Trust status is economically efficient because all of the revenues raised are reinvested in the port,unlike private enterprises which are obliged to pay significant sums to shareholders.
  
  Although there is provision in DHB,s proposals for the new structure to include a charitable trust for the benefit of the town there are no details published and no guarantees that it would be established.Without publication of the amounts of funding and percentages of ownership etc the inclusion of the charitable trust is meaningless.
  
  The submission also includes an employee,s trust. This might have represented a meaningful benefit if it included the whole of the workforce but,as stated, the board has laid off 300front line workers so the benefit is limited and there are no details published.Historiclly the port has enjoyed excellent industrial relations and has provided safe secure jobs paying fair rates of pay and supported by fair conditions of service.This is of obvious benefit to individual employees but it also significantly benefits the local economy.
  
  These important benefits will be jeopardised under privatisationbecause in the search to maximise shareholder profits,employees will be laid off, wages will be cut and conditions will be worsened.
  
  This is just part of the above Representation.

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