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David, 119 billion worth of goods move through the port each year, approx 20% in value of all the UK's trade. The port gets approx 60 million a year for facilitating the movement of all this trade and has direct operational costs of about 40 million and then, once indirects and tax is taken out has a profit, at the moment, of about 10 million. Most of this profit is going to be reinvested in operational capital projects (supplementing the long term infrastructure loan funding that has recently been announced) within the port, a proportion goes into the Charitable Community Fund, to be assigned as grant funding for organisations that get through the application process, and some is going into regeneration activity in buildings and on land owned by the port, which will hopefully boost and support other efforts to make a start on making Dover a better place.
Change and development has been a long time coming and Dover has not fared well in the waiting, but juxtaposing the value of trade goods that go to shops and factories up and down the country, or make their way from factories in the UK to mainland Europe, with the parlous state that successive incumbents in local, regional and national government have allowed Dover to fall into since the closures of the barracks, the coal mines, changes to ferry crew working practices and the advent of the Single Market, is just a little misleading.