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The Under Secretary of State for Transport, Mike Penning, and Dr. Bob Goldfield of DHB have visited Taiwan to meet with the president of Taiwanese ports and other Taiwanese port officials.
The relationship between DHB and Taiwan ports is to be intensified, and a return visit of the Taiwanese Ports president to Dover is expected some time in the future.
DHB offers expertise knowledge in advance ports operations around the world, and are intensifying their relationship in this aspect, with Government support, as can be seen here.
Somehow I think DPPT is fighting an uphill battle in trying to replace the DHB management.
In my opinion, the current management have plenty of recognition worldwide, and in Government, as being instrumental in British economic development and growth and international economic cooperation.
In my representations, while countering their privatisation request, I have never proposed that DHB be replaced.
Even the idea that the current Board control pass to local Government does not mean in any way the demise of DHB. Such a transfer proposal is only owing to the idea that local Government should be the delivery arm of central Government policies.
This in fact is standing Government policy, which somehow coincided with my views in early 2010 during the first consultation phase.
But DHB management of the Port of Dover would remain intact.