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    This is the bit which I have never understood and nobody has ever explained. The so-called "profits" are the excess of income over outgoings and are used to continuously improve and expand the port. Where does the pension company get its return from unless it uses this money, leaving nothing for further investment in the port and resulting in stagnation? Furthermore, where does the additional money come from that is supposed to be going to be invested in Dover and which is what this privatisation is all about?

    "Modernising Trust Ports [second edition]: 1.4.1 Trust ports can expect to generate a significant return. In a private company, after deducting strategic investments and contingencies, that return would be distributed among shareholders in the form of a dividend. Trust ports, having no shareholders, must use any profits generated to support the long term viability of the port and thus for the benefit of the whole community of stakeholders."

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