A port district may finance, construct, condemn, purchase, acquire, add to, equip, maintain and operate any and all facilities and services reasonably incident to the operation of a modern, efficient and competitive port, together with industrial and economic development facilities of any kind or nature which maintain or increase employment opportunities in a port district. In connection with its operations, a port district may perform all customary services including, but not limited to, the handling, weighing, measuring, reconditioning and storage for hire, processing and/or holding for transshipment of all commodities.