Why do you keep on about the D.H.B. and its plans ,if you look at all the companys big and small that have come and gone ie-The mines,chair factory ,D.E.W paper mill and many more ,but the port is still here still giving jobs to 100s of men and women ,the port must move on with the times or it will end up like the rest ,still here but there will be no jobs just a small amount to keep it open, BOTH councils and the folk of Dover need to be all on the same side that way we will all move forward making Dover a much better place to live in and to visit .Stop all this in fighting .What I would like to see is more of a link up by the ways of bridges and underpaths to the front, this will join the port up more with the town.
With the shops etc coming and a more up todate port Dover will move upwards.If the port had been sold off the the D,PP it would have put Dover back 50years because it would have had to pay back a loan of some £500million .As I have said many times before at this time the port is in the best hands.
I go back many years from 1942 and seen Dover with just one 2000ton ferry and the cars were put on the ship by a net seeing the port as it is today with the ships at about 30.000 tons roll on and off this has been done by D,HB. puting its funds back into the port .
You can go round the UK seeing ports that did not do that and now are gone or like Folkestone, Ramsgate ,and many more just for sailing boats,etc ,We have one of the best ports in the world and to keep it that way is must keep up todate, yes some it might be seen not working for the good of Dover at this time but Dover will still be a major port in 200years time because of the way it moves onward and upward.
