Port construction question

[The Rock Doctor]

Can I build a slip or drydock at the same time that I'm building the port which will contain it?  Or do I need to wait until the port is done?

[P3D]

You have to wait until the port is finished.

[The Rock Doctor]

Good, thanks.               

[The Rock Doctor]

Follow-up question:  a type 1 port costs $15 and 2 BP.  The construction time will be three half-years (one half-year build time per $5 cost). 

Clearly the $15 must be paid for up front, but what about the BP?  Can I just dole it out as it becomes available within that 18 month window?

[Borys]

Ahoj!
No, the 15$ does not have to be given up front. It must be doled out "up to 5$ a HY", and need not be 5$ a HY. Same with BP. I've expanded Aden and built Catanduanes in dribs and drabs, when $ and BP was available - took me three years or so :)

Borys

[The Rock Doctor]

...and then you hand Catanduanes back to Iberia.  Your infrastructure officials must have been mortified when the foreign affairs guys broke the news.

[Borys]

Ahoj!
Yes :)
But the militiary must adapt to shfts in policy.
The Catanduanes story is rather convulted. Want to hear it?
Hmm, maybe, regardless of your reaction, I should write a learned paper titled
"Short essay on Austrian policy in the Pacific Region, with special note on Catanduanes and the Filipines, in the early Stefanian period, from ascension to the Second Pacific War. In 3 Tomes."

Borys