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  Marek - if to a local Trust then that dividend or equivilent would be a driver to regeneration and thats the idea.
  
  As for your rather simplistic view of finance, you are right only up to a point. Dividends are not the only and in some cases, main, driver for investment. Some investors in what are called growth funds focus not on dividend yield but capital and market growth. That said I would suspect that Dover Port would tend to attract income seekers, therefore dividends if privatised commercially. But that does not mean less money for Port development - commercial operations can use a number of ways to fund development from the markets with the incentive of increased profitability and future dividend growth. That is a mute point if Charlie's plan were to succeed because the local community would be the main benificiary.

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