But developers also would have to pay for the right to build big: either by purchasing privately owned air rights over Grand Central Terminal or by contributing to a fund to pay for infrastructure upgrades.
During his two and a half years running Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) on the northern coast of KwaZulu Natal, Mr Dlamini has done much to improve tense relations with the government and the state-owned rail company that brings coal to the terminal.
The most prominent deal is a concession for COSCO Pacific, a state-owned shipping and ports giant, to run a terminal at the port of Piraeus and perhaps to build another.
Earlier this month, Howard Energy Partners, partially owned by Crosstex, told mergermarket it had taken an undisclosed equity stake in Live Oak Railroad, a rail terminal project modeled after Rangeland but located in the Eagle Ford shale play in South Texas.