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  The above article is copied from the Dover Ferry Photos forum. This news comes as no surprise whatsoever. I have always thought it unlikely that Terminal 2 would be built at all let alone in the time scale originally envisaged. I have also always had an uneasy suspicion that, were it to be built, it would be doomed to join all the other expensive white elephants that have been built in Dover since the war and gradually fall into disuse.
  
  There are lots of ways of carrying cargo between the UK and the Continent and RORO ferries are an expensive and inefficient way of doing it. In the green future which we aspire to, much more use will have to be made of rail through the tunnel, and of feeder container ships and breakbulk cargoships which will use other ports than Dover. Eurotunnel is already making progress in this direction and starting to make use of the immense unutilised capacity reserved for railfreight. Also, this impoverished country will need to start making things for itself again instead of importing them.
  
  DHB is extending the current Eastern Docks berths to accommodate the new P&O ferries under construction so the Terminal 2 berths are not a requirement in this respect.
  
  DHB is still desperately trying to raise finance for this scheme. They are raising the port useage rates which they charge the ferries, against much protest from the ferry companies. Outsourcing their staff was also probably done with this in mind, again with bitter and acrimonious opposition from the ferry companies. Bob Goldfield has finally come clean that privatisation is what he has in mind. No surprise there, then.

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