Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
22 August 2010
14:2866673I am looking at the Town not DHB .Ok this is what the .D.H.B. are saying in their plans for the next Generation,their words not mine "We are willing to invest approximately £30million in the new marina" What I say is good gohead with it ,they do not need to sell the port off to do that..lets now look at all the jobs you keep on about,well the DHB staff numbers over the last two years in 2008 it was 515 in 2009 it was 325,and they are telling us it will need less staff in 2010.Most of the jobs are sea jobs and with the ferry companys and that means in the way of british jobs PO only, apart from shore staff and we see already ld lines taking one ship off and the other one could go later in the year. Seafrance as we know also might pull out or take some ships off the run,PO are saying it will have to reduce the job numbers next year when the bigger ships are in service.Cruise ships calls are less this year than last year and that number going down again next year most jobs with the Cruise ships is summer weeks only.So all in all the job front as it stands today not good.The General cargo in on the increase and that is good not only for Hammonds but jobs aswell, next year again it will increase which might help the job front.What does Dover itself get out of the Ferry companys mostly it is jobs and most of them are with PO so they are safe but there will be a fall in numbers.So we are back with how we get more cash for our town out of the port. PO said at the meeting if the sell of the port goes their way ,The day that they get the cash from that, they will put £20million in a fund setup for Dover,Dr Goldfield said that himself last week some of us on the forum was there when he said it.
I am all for keeping the port under the Royel Charter, but if it is to go and I am asked which plan would I pick ,it would have to be the DHB one,on seeing the £20million going into the Dover Fund.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 5,673
25 September 2010
09:3172417The works at the Hoverport are for pre-casting bits for one of the berths in the Eastern Docks.
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
- Posts: 4,150
25 September 2010
09:4672420Thanks Paul. Funny you should mention that, as it was only yesterday I spotted a few crane`s working up there from the POW pier. Earlier in the week, I was up Langdon cliffs and hearing a constant banging noise, so now you`ve answered me a few question`s.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
