moynaq, uzbekistan
Moynaq used to the be the largest port on the Aral Sea, to the extent that Lenin could call on the city to provide some 20,000 tons of fish within days to relieve a famine in Russia. But the river that feeds it, the Amu Darya, has been drained dry to provide irrigation for cotton fields. As a result, the shore has receded more than 100 km inland, leaving the ships rusting in the sand. The fishing fleet is no longer a fleet, and within a few years, it won't even be, as the frames of the ships are gradually stripped for scrap metal. And this literally within a human lifetime.
I'm originally from Odessa, Ukraine though...
call it dumb idea and a dumber plan without a study.