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How do you construct a port? I have built colonies that have become settlements a great distance away but cant expand to the area right beside them since there is a very far port distance. I have attempted to build a harbor but that did not work.

Midas

I believe it's a Dock building.
 

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Build Fort or Core the new colony?
 

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How do you construct a port? I have built colonies that have become settlements a great distance away but cant expand to the area right beside them since there is a very far port distance. I have attempted to build a harbor but that did not work.

Midas

You need cores for colonial range. As soon as you have expanded a colony into a city (you need a population of 1000) you can turn it into a core. That takes about 30 month for an overseas province.
 

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The colony range is sized from a CORE province. You have to turn settlements into core first, I'm not sure if you also need to build a dock.

I had the same doubt as you on my last Portugal game.