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Actually, Neil, reading again your post 191 "additional costs will lead to industry consolidation, reduction in competition, and increased prices which will then have a disproportionate effect on retail", I think you are deliberately going out of your way to sabotage a proposal for local regeneration by using scare-mongering tactics.
As I've clearly explained, the effect on retail prices will be too insignificant to even be noticed.
As for reduction in competition, this is just a mere invention! Freight travels both ways, be it imported or exported, and fifty pounds more on 15-20,000 kg of transported goods is practically a nothingness when translated into retail prices.
I think you are just trying to mislead people here with big words void of any reality.
For me it is clear to see that DPPT is just obstructing local regeneration, and quite frankly, what DPPT proposes is just borrowing money for a one-off payment to Dover (£50 million), and Amen! That would be the end of it.
The £1 million a year there-after is just nothing!
There is no way the ferry companies, which cater for petrol-dependent road transport, are ever going to manage to cover the enormous debt DPPT would get Dover Port into. Ross' fag-box sums the other day, where-by in 30 years DPPT would have pulled clean with a profit, is absolutely unrealistic.
One has to assume, that with such sums, DPPT have excluded a T2 and excluded any major Port maintenance.