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The predominant reason that led to Dover Harbour Board's creation was the constant movement of shingle on the seabed and the subsequent silting of the harbour, which resulted in sailing ships having to use other ports. One of Dover Harbour Board's main functions consisted in constructing piers around the port that would stop shingle and sand from entering the harbour, as this would ensure safe transit for ships entering and leaving the port.
Today the port facilities are concentrated in two separate ports,Coach Sunglasses Outlet Online Internet And Cable, known as Eastern Docks and Western Docks. The harbour is surrounded from east to west by two long piers and a central break-water, with two entrances for ships and ferries: the eastern and the western harbour entrance. Both of the ports, the harbour and the promenade,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as well as a number of important buildings adjacent to the promenade, are administered by Dover Harbour Board as part of the trust status.
The port-facilities at both ports – Eastern and Western Docks – are fully functional,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the modern construction methods employed to build the harbour's piers and berths exclude the need to invest significant sums of money in repair works. According to Dover Harbour Board's statistics, the use of Dover's port facilities in 2008 involved almost 14 million passengers, about 3 million cars, 98 thousand coaches and over 2.3 million lorries.
Dover in Kent is commonly known as the gateway to Britain. Dover's geographical position in South East England – distancing only 22 miles from France – has made the town become Britain's busiest port, with an average of over 7,000 lorries and 20,000 cars transiting daily through the Eastern Docks ferry terminal.
Owing to Britain's 900 billion pound national debt, Dover's port may be put up for sale following a proposal of Dover Harbour Board to attract large sums of money. The town's population has made petitions to prevent this happening, and all the local political candidates at the recent general elections– from all political parties – have stood up and spoken out against the sale of Dover's port.
During the second half of the twentieth century, with increasing port traffic passing through Dover, a new port has been gradually built up in what became known as Eastern Docks, situated below the Eastern Heights. Car-ferries operating from Dover to Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk in France use the Eastern Docks, the older Western Docks being reserved for cruise ships calling at Dover, with an additional area designated as a dock for private boats.
Dover Harbour Board was created in 1606 by way of a Royal Charter as a trust to administer Dover's port, its main objective being the investment of all port profits into the harbour's maintenance. At the beginning of the seventeenth century the harbour was situated in Dover's western area,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in proximity to Shakespeare Cliff. The trust charter also granted Dover Harbour Board the administration of the stretch of shore going eastwards as far as the cliffs where Dover Castle and the church of Saint Mary in Castro stand.
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These impressive figures outline the consequences of port traffic passing through the town, with all the streets directly parallel to the seafront being signed over to the traffic. A continuous stream of lorries and cars entering and leaving Eastern Docks has effectively cut off the town from the seafront, whereas the absence of any form of port revenue for the town prevents profits from the port being invested in local projects.