Yet at some point the economies of scale are bound to run aground on the cost of upgrading ports to handle ever larger vessels.
That's going to be the green investment bank, carbon capture and storage demonstrations and backing for wind power, probably via upgrading ports.
Investors will also worry if Mr Humala tries to unpick contracts under which private firms are upgrading ports, airports and roads.Mr Humala has a strong incentive to govern from the centre.
Dubai Ports now runs Djibouti's upgraded port.
Mr. Chen and other officials talked up attractions like a new airport and an upgraded port, and they pledged to clean up Guangzhou's blighted environment.
Last summer, when the Martha's Vineyard Steamship Authority received nearly a million dollars to upgrade port security, the harbormaster in the town of Oak Bluffs told the Vineyard Gazette, "Quite honestly, I don't know what we're going to do, but you don't turn down grant money".
Laurent Falguière, a vice-president of France's CMA CGM, the world's third-largest container-shipping line, emphasises the flexibility a wider canal will provide, along with the upgraded ports and terminals planned on America's Gulf and East Coasts.
The green investment fund had been heavily trailed along with the £60m in funding he announced to upgrade ports to make them better able to handle off-shore wind turbines.
central position in the Adriatic-Ionian Sea, which can significantly support the development of the tourist sector; upgraded ports network that can serve sea transportation purposes; valuable cultural and natural environment that can steer the development of highly qualitative alternative forms of tourism; and.
The law could complicate matters for Odebrecht, one of Brazil's largest construction companies, which is upgrading the Port of Miami at the same time it is building Cuba's Port of Mariel.
