The Government has set in motion proposals to privatise three more ports. Consultation letters have been set to the ports of Dover, Tyne and Ipswich asking them to commit themselves to privatisation. The ports have three months to respond. Five ports - Forth, Clyde, Tees and Hatlepool, Medway and Tilbury - were privatised in 1992 and Dundee is following the same route.
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