Okay, I'll end the suspense.

0. That's right.

Okay, let's consider a couple of options. Is it possible that I'm making money and it's not recorded (thought the game) in the port information? So that, say, when click on Denmark, then click on the port icon (in the box that shows all the development for this country), and the informationn pops up, it doesn't show how much you're making?

To put it another way, that even if your port is making money, it looks like it's not.

Also, in the MTW Economics 101 essay, I was encouraged to develop my ports and shipping because I could live on them -- use the money to develop my agriculture and mines. But at 25 to 50 florien a port, it would take several hundred decades to develop my mines and agriculture.