The port itself will be "internationalized," and the Italians agree to sell or rent Tito as many docks and wharfage areas as he has money to pay for.
Ashore they sent seamen, marines and engineers to construct breastworks and gun emplacements for the soldiers to fall back on, and demolition parties to blow up wharfage and fuel .
Hansen has cut unloading time in half, increased wharfage space threefold, and imported barges from the Philippines for offshore loading.