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Objectives included seizing and holding a major port for a short period, both to prove that it was possible and to gather intelligence.
The small village of Grimsby grew to become the largest fishing port in the world by the mid 19th century.
Kearsarge's hull armor had been installed in just three days, more than a year before, while she was in port at the Azores.
Dieppe has a ferry port with direct services to the English town of Newhaven, situated at the mouth of the River Ouse in East Sussex.
Bristol was also the port from which John Cabot sailed in 1497, crewed mostly by Bristol sailors.
At the end of fermentation, the yeast and other solids have fallen to the cone's apex can be simply flushed out through a port at the apex.
Amsterdam has the biggest cruise port in the Netherlands with more than 150 cruise ships every year.
From those positions, they could be rotated to fire across the port or starboard sides of the cruiser.
Keller was briefed at Dover to go to Calais and given sealed orders for the British port commander.
The port remained garrisoned by German forces until the conclusion of the Battle of Normandy.
This was a remarkable achievement considering they did not hold a port until Cherbourg fell.
The time when the crest of the wave reaches a port then gives the time of high water at the port.
Also if a ship is wrecked in the channel, the channel and the port could be closed for months until the shipwreck is removed.
Plymouth Yacht Haven was selected as host port RORC Increased the number of entries to meet demands.
Because of their great size, supertankers often cannot enter port fully loaded.
The port employs directly over 11,000 people and handles over 10,000 ship moorings annually.
The population of workers is concentrated in the southern suburbs close to the port and the industrial zone.
This hull armor had been installed in just three days, more than a year before, while Kearsarge was in port at the Azores.
As early as the 7th century BC, there existed important port cities of Canopus and Heracleion.
Rommel and his 7th Panzer Division headed west over the Seine river through Normandy and captured the port of Cherbourg on 18 June.
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The jetties, their forts, and the port facilities were demolished in 1713 under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht.
La Pallice, the grand port maritime de La Rochelle is the commercial, deep water port of La Rochelle.
The Americans, assigned to land at Utah and Omaha, were to cut off the Cotentin Peninsula and capture the port facilities at Cherbourg.
The canal links the city to the sea to permit cargo ships and ferries to dock in the port of Caen.
After a reception by the authorities in Boulogne, after 2 hours and 10 minutes the ferry left port still under Captain Hayward's command.
Lee first listed to port then to starboard and finally sank within about 15 minutes of the attack.
Ballast water taken up at sea and released in port is a major source of unwanted exotic marine life.
The port also receives Ford and General Motors vehicles from Spain and Portugal and wood both tropical and from Landes.
Southampton is a major UK port which has good transport links with the rest of the country.
In the 18th century Poole was the principal British port trading with North America.
Due to its position, Calais since the Middle Ages has been a major port and a very important centre for transport and trading with England.
These holds were further subdivided into port and starboard sections by a longitudinal bulkhead.
Teesport is based on the River Tees and is currently the third largest port in the United Kingdom, and amongst the ten biggest in Western Europe.
The port has become a major European port since major development works were carried in the 1972 to 1985 period.
Weakened since the 1990s, the commercial port sees the transit of 110,000 trucks to or from Ireland and Great Britain.
It is revitalizing areas neglected by industrial and port activities by developing tertiary activities.
The port infrastructure allows for many water activities such as sailing, fishing, canoeing, and rowing.
The port tradition in many of the groups was repeated in the unused sheds of the port, such as Bovis hall which could hold 20,000 spectators.
The French fleet, reportedly numbering some 1,700 ships, proceeded first to Gravelines and then to the port of Dam.
He believed that trying to bring warships out of the blockaded port at Brest would cause unnecessary delays, and could be disastrous.
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On the orders of the Reagan administration, the CIA mined Nicaragua's Sandino port in 1984 in support of the Contra guerrilla group.
The defenders held on to the port as long as possible, aware that an early capitulation would free up German forces to advance on Dunkirk.
At its head is the city and port of Belfast, which sits at the mouth of the River Lagan.
Gort ordered the BEF to withdraw to Dunkirk, the only port from which the BEF could withdraw.
By 24 May, the Germans had captured the port of Boulogne and surrounded Calais.
By the end of May, medical stores had been removed from Dieppe and a demolition party landed, ready to blow up the port infrastructure.
Duisburg is the home of Europe's largest inland port and functions as a hub to the sea ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Amsterdam.
Although initially slow to respond to the raid, the German fighters soon made their presence felt over the port as the day wore on.
It was not until the silting of the River Dee ended Chester's port activities that people and commerce began to flood in.
Caen is served by the small port of Ouistreham, lying at the mouth of the Caen Canal where it meets the English Channel.
The port also sees various cruise ship calls bringing visitors to the Dorset area.
Boulogne was the major Roman port for trade and communication with Britain.
The tidal Avon Gorge, which had secured the port during the Middle Ages, had become a liability.
The Russians were in constant pursuit of a warm water port on the Pacific Ocean, for their navy as well as for maritime trade.
After payment of a ransom, slaves were often taken to a port to wait for the ransom to be finalized.
There was widespread belief among merchants in the port that Bristol men had discovered the island at earlier date but then lost track of it.
In 982 he was caught in a storm and made port in Wendland, where he met Queen Geira, a daughter of King Burizleif.
The port of Bayonne is located at the mouth of the Adour, downstream of the city.
World War II hit Southampton particularly hard because of its strategic importance as a major commercial port and industrial area.
Most of the material used for reclamation came from dredging of Southampton Water, to ensure that the port can continue to handle large ships.
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The British were prevented from extending their authority beyond Manila and the nearby port of Cavite.
The port grew, and in 1433 Poole was made Dorset's Port of the Staple for the export of wool.
Wexford became a major maritime port exporting fish, cloth, wool and hides.
It also gives details for port states on effective measures of inspecting and reporting illegal fishing.
The port accounts for more than a third of economic activity of the town of Calais.
The Germans had assumed that their cruisers, leaving port one by one, would not meet larger ships or major forces.
Aden was at this time The port lies about equidistant from the Suez Canal, Mumbai, and Zanzibar, which were all important British possessions.
Prior to underway replenishment, naval vessels had to enter a port or anchor to take on fuel.
The envoys boarded three treasure ships and set sail from Sumatra to the port of Aden.
From a purely transit port Zeebrugge has gradually evolved into a centre for European distribution.
Louis XVI decided to relaunch the project of the port on the English Channel.
The construction of the dam and the military port has brought an important flow of workers and soldiers.
With the implementation of the harbour and military port, Cherbourg became a port of war at the end of the 18th century, with a large garrison.
The southern districts of Le Havre are mainly used for industrial and port activities.
Uig, the port for ferries to the Outer Hebrides, is on the west of the Trotternish peninsula and Edinbane is between Dunvegan and Portree.
Many courses are offered are related to the port operations, logistics, industry, and sustainable development.
The port is protected by a long breakwater built in the 19th century, at the end of which is a red and white lighthouse.
In 2011, 715,279 passengers passed through the port of Le Havre and there were 95 visits by cruise ships carrying 185,000 passengers.
The docks built between 1867 and 1881 in the more sheltered channel between the mainland and Barrow Island replaced the port at Roa Island.
The Medway Estuary has been an important port and naval base for 500 years.
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Trains connect the port on the Rosslare Line via Wexford, Enniscorthy, Gorey, Arklow, Wicklow, Bray to Dublin Connolly.
Two days later the Spanish Armada sailed from Lisbon but was forced back into port by bad winds.
Salvage crews secured the vessel and it was hauled into the port of Bilbao, Spain.
Later, some ships survived mine blasts, limping into port with buckled plates and broken backs.
Morecambe Bay is to the east of the port and the Irish Sea surrounds it to the south and west.
The port of Barrow is the only deep water port between the Mersey and the Clyde.
Port Penrhyn was an important port in the 19th century, exporting the slates produced at the Penrhyn Quarry.
Griffiths' private tramline, to Pontypridd and then by the Glamorganshire Canal to the port at Cardiff.
In World War II, San Francisco was a major port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater.
Despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography.
The PNTL vessel Pacific Heron is based at the port of Barrow, and is used to transport nuclear material between nearby Sellafield and Japan.
Encircled by the Germans, they retreated to the area around the port of Dunkirk.
Barrow is the principal port serving Cumbria and the Lake District, and has been a port of call for several cruise ships in recent years.
However, Chester was still a major port of passenger embarkation for Ireland until the early 19th century.
By the late 1950s, the port had virtually ceased trading and the railway was in terminal decline.
A ferry, and later bridge, on the River Forth at Stirling brought wealth and strategic influence, as did its tidal port at Riverside.
It was Ireland's leading fishing port in the 15th and 16th century exporting mainly to ports along the west coast of England and Wales.
Upon retreat, the Allies also wanted to destroy coastal defences, port structures and all strategic buildings.
This road may have continued to the port at Meols, which may have been used as a base for attacking the north Wales coast.
In December 1883, a male humpback swam up the Firth of Tay in Scotland, past what was then the whaling port of Dundee.
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The need to develop and protect the port led to a chain of lighthouses being built along the north the Wirral coast.
By this time the Germans had destroyed the port facilities, which were not brought back into full operation until September.
Irvine Harbour is now officially closed as a commercial port and houses a small number of privately owned pleasure craft.
In port or in harbour, vessel traffic service radar systems are used to monitor and regulate ship movements in busy waters.
Crump, crack! A shell exploded near them and the whole aircraft yawned to port as if somebody had punched it through the sky.
In 1818, Ferdinando I, the first Italian steamboat, left the port of Naples, where it had been built.
Due to Glamorgan's long coastline, several settlements grew and prospered as harbour and port towns.
At about the same time, the city of Heracleion, the closest to the sea, became an important port for Greek trade.
The success of the Clyde at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution was driven by the location of Glasgow, being a port facing the Americas.
Winter Quarters Bay forms a small harbor, on the southern tip of Ross Island where a floating ice pier makes port operations possible in summer.
There are plans to move the port out of the city centre, but no location has been chosen.
After World War II, Wilhelmshaven became the main German port for the import of petrol.
The port city of Vasco da Gama in Goa is named after him, as is the crater Vasco da Gama on the Moon.
They also worked in the artisanal trades on large plantations and in many southern port cities.
These communities flourished in port cities strongly involved in the slave trade, such as Liverpool and Bristol.
The duke appoints a number of officials in the county and acts as the port authority for the main harbour of the Isles of Scilly.
In 1951 the Lacq gas field was discovered whose extracted sulphur and associated oil are shipped from the port of Bayonne.
Despite mediocre generalship, they managed to capture the Russian port of Sevastopol, compelling Tsar Nicholas I to ask for peace.
Similarly, it is the second port in Spain as regards ship traffic, only surpassed by the Port of Algeciras Bay.
It was an important trading port and defensive outpost of Winchester, at the site of modern Bitterne Manor.
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In 1888, the Barry Railway Company was formed as part of David Davies' plan to create an alternative export port in south Wales at Barry Docks.
The definition of the port of Southampton was apparently broader than today and embraced all of the area between Lymington and Langstone.
Yarmouth is a town, port and civil parish in the west of the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England.
The timbers and contents of the port side were deposited in the scour pits and the remaining ship structure, or else carried off by the currents.
Closer to Rome, he built a navigable canal on the Tiber, leading to Portus, his new port just north of Ostia.
After the blockades of the World Wars there was some increase in the use of the port including a tea trade with India.
The port found a niche as an important local centre for general cargo operations.
He embarked at Brundisium and probably landed at the port of Aegeae in Cilicia, travelling to Syria by land.
As a busy port and a provincial capital Eboracum was a cosmopolitan city with residents from throughout the Roman Empire.
The city grew up as a river port at the confluence of the River Ouse and the River Foss.
Irvine Welsh was born in Leith, the port area of the Scottish capital Edinburgh.
The Port of Calais was the first cable ship port in Europe and is the fourth largest port in France and the largest for passenger traffic.
The Petropavlovsk sank almost immediately, while the Pobeda had to be towed back to port for extensive repairs.
Admiral Rozhestvensky's only hope now was to reach the port of Vladivostok.
Each aircraft had a Jolly Roger flag painted on its port side, alongside nose art featuring female characters.
Cantonese first developed around the port city of Guangzhou in the Pearl River Delta region of southeastern China.
In a voyage charter the charterer rents the vessel from the loading port to the discharge port.
Time charter arrangements specify a daily rate, and port costs and voyage expenses are also generally paid by the charterer.
The first delay came when Queen Elizabeth I ordered all vessels to remain at port for potential use against the Spanish Armada.
Puebla was built because of the need of a Spanish settlement in the route between Mexico City and the port of Veracruz.
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In September 1858 the expeditionary force captured and occupied the port of Da Nang, and then in February 1859 moved south and captured Saigon.
The port is an important piece of logistical infrastructure for the NEPIC cluster of process companies.
These breakwaters have been extended and adapted so that the port lies almost entirely on reclaimed land.
The Western Docks at the port of Dover are served from the Town Centre as well as Canterbury and Deal.
The military port experienced an increase in activity, and the garrison stationed at Cherbourg was reinforced.
Thanks to the urgency of the port reconstruction, economic activity resumed quickly.
In 2014 Liverpool was the United Kingdom's sixth largest port by tonnage of freight handled.
The marina, first French port of call, extends beyond the Plage Verte, old beach redeveloped into lawn after the creation of the port.
The interconnected dock system was the most advanced port system in the world.
Its port is the second largest in France, after that of Marseille, for total traffic, and the largest French container port.
However, the British blockade virtually ended overseas and colonial trade, hurting the port cities and their supply chains.
Antwerp regained access to the sea and grew quickly as a major port and business centre.
It is Belgium's most important fishing port and the wholesale fish market located there is one of the largest in Europe.
Formerly a major port of entry from Great Britain, from 1821 to 1920 it was named Kingstown.
In under a month, Commonwealth forces were pushed back into Egypt with the exception of the besieged port of Tobruk.
Eventually, he convinced Hitler of the need to attack British port facilities.
The port provides 16,000 direct jobs to the Le Havre region, to which must be added indirect jobs in industry and transport.
The populace of the port of Hull became 'trekkers', people who underwent a mass exodus from cities before, during, and after attacks.
However, the attacks failed to knock out or damage railways, or port facilities for long, even in the Port of London, a target of many attacks.
The port of Aberystwyth, although it is small and relatively inconsequential today, used to be an important Atlantic Ocean entryway.
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Damage was inflicted on the port installations, but many bombs fell on the city itself.
The Castletown River is routinely dredged for navigation purposes for the deep water port of Dundalk.
The settlement soon became a flourishing river port and crossroads, giving rise to vast cotton kingdoms along the river.
The closure of this vital port to the United States caused anger and consternation.
Kingston upon Hull is the main port in the region and historically a notable fishing harbour.
Reclamation work continued to the late 1990s, when the northwest part of the port was constructed using a dragline.
Goole is Britain's most inland port and is used mostly for importing commodities such as coal and timber.
It was an important harbour and shipping port for most of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Barrow is also becoming increasingly popular as a port of call for cruise liners visiting the town and the Lake District.
Antwerp, which was then the most important port in the world, also had to be conquered.
Since Roman times, the nearby city of Chester on the River Dee had been the region's principal port on the Irish Sea.
Numerous colonial soldiers and sailors who had served with the UK settled in Liverpool and other port cities.
Liverpool's wealth as a port city enabled the construction of two enormous cathedrals in the 20th century.
The port is currently owned and operated by Associated British Ports Holdings, but some land is shared with BAE Systems Submarine Solutions.
Since summer 2007, Thomson cruise lines have included Newcastle as a departure port on its Norwegian and Fjords cruise.
This coal was valuable for steam railways and steam ships, and an export trade began, via the Taff Vale Railway and the port of Cardiff.
The port of Bristol is on the Severn Estuary, where another River Avon flows into it through the Avon Gorge.
A curious phenomenon associated with the lower reaches of the Severn is the tidal bore, which forms somewhat upstream of the port of Sharpness.
In the Middle Ages overseas trade was carried out from the port of Rackley.
Truro grew as a centre of trade from its port and then as a stannary town for the tin mining industry.
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The integral ladder is stowed in the port side of the fuselage, below the cockpit.
Portsmouth International Port is a commercial cruise ship and ferry port for international destinations.
The port is the second busiest in the United Kingdom after Dover, handling around three million passengers a year.
The successful outcome of the war had reaffirmed Portsmouth's significance as a naval port and importance to the defence of British interests.
Ferry services from the port are operated by Brittany Ferries, Condor Ferries, and LD Lines.
The investment in new port facilities at Cairnryan gives security to the future of the North Channel route.
It was completed to Neyland in 1856, where a transatlantic port was established.
It is the principal port for London, as well as being the main United Kingdom port for handling the importation of paper.
Three Nakhoda Ragam class corvettes built for the Brunei Navy, but never delivered, berthed at the port of Barrow.
In 1992 the port was privatised and is part of the Forth Ports organisation, the PLA retaining the role of managing the tidal Thames.
Both ferries are based in the northern Tasmanian port city of Devonport and sail to Melbourne.
By 1788, Wexford, with 44 cargo ships and 200 herring boats was the sixth busiest port in Ireland.
The steel industry in Bangladesh is concentrated in the port city of Chittagong.
Because many of the Chinese settlers were originally seamen, the first settlements started in the port cities of Liverpool, Cardiff and London.
Port Talbot would eventually become the biggest exporting port in Glamorgan, and the second largest in Wales, only surpassed by Milford Haven.
He formed an alliance of pirates and blockaded the port of Charles Town, South Carolina.
Due to the majority of early South Asian immigrants being lascars, the earliest South Asian communities were found in port towns.
Late that month his flotilla blockaded the port of Charles Town in the Province of South Carolina.
All vessels entering or leaving the port were stopped, and as the town had no guard ship, its pilot boat was the first to be captured.
Her passengers were questioned about the vessels still in port and then locked below decks for about half a day.
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Hyde moved Ranger to the port side of Jane and the Union flag was unfurled on each ship.
The officer was given half a bottle of port and the right to invite a friend or two to dinner in the bank.
The Wirral's proximity to the port of Chester influenced the history of the Dee side of the peninsula.
Traditionally, a barleywine or port are paired with Blue Stilton, but it also goes well with sweet sherry or Madeira wine.
For centuries, the East End has been the first port of call for many immigrants working in the docks and shipping from east Bengal.
In the colonial carve-up that followed, lines were drawn between the port cities of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam and the island of Zanzibar.
Keep the ports closed, but clear away the port guns, and stand by for a broadside. Another two cable lengths and we have them.
They are frequently identified with a specific port town to which they belong.
Britten was born in the fishing port of Lowestoft in Suffolk, on the east coast of England on 22 November 1913, the feast day of Saint Cecilia.
Such restrictions on shore leave coupled with reduced time in port by many ships translate into longer periods at sea.
Another technique often used by cruisers is to set two head sails, one to port and one to starboard.
But Richard travelled south along the Mediterranean coast, defeated the Muslims near Arsuf, and recaptured the port city of Jaffa.
Many of his paintings depict Port Vendres, a small port near the Spanish border, and the landscapes of Roussillon.
Since the 16th century, Brussels has had its own harbour, the port of Brussels.
The port supplied an avenue for trade with Great Britain and later Europe and North America.
Belfast has a large port used for exporting and importing goods, and for passenger ferry services.
To find the meaning of a word, your first port of call should be a decent dictionary.
In the 1784 peace treaty between the two nations, the Dutch lost the Indian port of Negapatam and were forced to make trade concessions.
When you move to a new country, your first port of call is often the local police.
The port facilities were migrating downstream to Avonmouth and new industrial complexes were founded there.
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The Port of Singapore is the busiest port in the Indian Ocean, located in the Strait of Malacca where it meets the Pacific.
Because Russia's European ports were not safe, the corps was evacuated by a long detour via the port of Vladivostok.
The rise of port cities saw the clustering of populations caused by the development of steamships and railroads.
Trelleborg is the busiest ferry port in Sweden in terms of weight transported by lorry.
Towards the end of the century the size of the helm port on large ships was much reduced by bringing the head of the rudder inside the ship.
On 13 September, they carried out another large raid on the Channel ports, sinking 80 large barges in the port of Ostend.
In January, the small port at Bardia was taken, soon followed by the seizure of the fortified port of Tobruk.
The Salso flows through parts of Enna and Caltanissetta before entering the Mediterranean Sea at the port of Licata.
The second division, consisting of one nau and one round caravel, set sail for the port of Sofala in what is today Mozambique.
One submarine is normally undergoing maintenance and the remaining two in port or on training exercises.
The French destroyer Kersaint, which was guarding Haifa port as part of Operation Musketeer, returned fire but failed to score any hits.
The Port of Dover and the port at Folkestone have many ferry services to France and though none currently run to Belgium.
More recently, regular cruise liner traffic has built up, making the port very busy in season.
The city's port is the largest general cargo port in the country and its leading passenger gateway.
The port of Swansea initially traded in wine, hides, wool, cloth and later in coal.
Newport has been a port since medieval times, when the first Newport Castle was built by the Normans.
It grew significantly in the 19th century, when its port became the focus of coal exports from the eastern valleys of South Wales.
Holyhead Port is a busy ferry port handling more than 2 million passengers each year.
As a major port in the United Kingdom, Aberdeen receives many visiting seafarers from ships calling the port.
Seafarers' welfare organisation, Apostleship of the Sea has a port chaplain in Aberdeen to offer practical and pastoral support to them.
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Starting out as a fishing port, moving onto steam trawlers, the oil industry, it is now a major port of departure for the Baltic and Scandinavia.
The cargo port of Dundee is one of the largest economic generators in the city and is operated by Forth Ports.
Seafarers arriving at the port are given welfare and pastoral assistance by seafarers charity Apostleship of the Sea.
The port city of Stanley has regained the islands' economic focus, with an increase in population as workers migrate from Camp.
Gibraltar is a popular port for cruise ships and attracts day visitors from resorts in Spain.
A new town and port is being developed at Little Bay, which is on the northwest coast of the island.
The Port of Las Palmas is the third port in the islands in passengers and first in number of vehicles transported.
In addition, the port is the world's busiest for transshipment traffic and the world's biggest ship refuelling centre.
A hub world in the Kasna Republik, Kasnearfar was a cosmopolitan port for beings across the Four Galaxies.
The Mary Rose participated in the escort transport of troops in June 1522, and by 1 July the Breton port of Morlaix was captured.
Ships from the harbour at these ancient port cities established trade with Mesopotamia.
A lot of maintenance is carried out while at sea or in port by ship's crew.
This port was constructed in a semicircle with two moles and a lighthouse at its mouth.
Between 1803 and 1813, there were more than 10,000 lascars from the Indian subcontinent visiting British port cities and towns.
The port at Ostia was part of Claudius' solution to the constant grain shortages that occurred in winter, after the Roman shipping season.
The production of goods and Glasgow's busy port meant that many lascars were employed there.
Despite mediocre generalship, they managed to capture the Russian port of Sevastopol, compelling Tsar Alexander II to ask for peace.
Claret is the universal medicine here, and mundungus port the bane and stupefaction of all society.
This posed a problem for shooting the ship's departure from Southampton, as it was docked on its port side.
A port is a location on a coast or shore containing one or more harbors where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land.
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Guangzhou was an important port during the ancient times as far back as the Qin Dynasty.
Canopus was the principal port in Egypt for Greek trade before the foundation of Alexandria.
Ostia Antica was the port of ancient Rome with Portus established by Claudius and enlarged by Trajan to supplement the nearby port of Ostia.
Alaric's military operations centred on the port of Rome, through which Rome's grain supply had to pass.
Calais was a key port for the supply of arms and reinforcements to the Western Front.
A fishing port is the only port that depends on an ocean product, and depletion of fish may cause a fishing port to be uneconomical.
A port of call is an intermediate stop for a ship on its sailing itinerary.
Shortly after her return in late 1957, she was reassigned to her new home port of Kodiak, Alaska.
The port of Shanghai is the largest port in the world in both cargo tonnage and activity.
It regained its position as the world's busiest port by cargo tonnage and the world's busiest container port in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
Europe's busiest container port and biggest port by cargo tonnage by far is the Port of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands.
The country's customs is obliged to accept the agency's report for the purpose of assessing duties and taxes at the port of entry.
The medical officer of the port boarded the ship and examined every person in it.
The Calais border barrier built jointly by Britain and France on French soil surrounds the port and Channel Tunnel entrance at Calais.
However, Indian merchants continued to trade in the port cities of the Somali peninsula, which was free from Roman interference.
Maritime transport facilities are found in the port cities of Mogadishu, Bosaso, Berbera, Kismayo and Merca.
The victory was immediately followed by Edward laying siege to the port city of Calais.
It serves as a key refuelling and transshipment center, and is the principal maritime port for imports from and exports to neighboring Ethiopia.
He also mentioned that the Adal kingdom had its capital in Zeila, a port city in the northwestern Awdal region abutting Djibouti.
This is the return of apprehended Mexicans to remote locations by Border Patrol rather than the nearest Mexican port of entry.
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The Port of Stockton is the easternmost port on the west coast of the United States.
The Port of Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe and the world's largest outside East Asia.
Amsterdam grew and in the 15th century became the primary trading port in Europe for grain from the Baltic region.
The Dutch location gives it prime access to markets in the UK and Germany, with the Port of Rotterdam being the largest port in Europe.
Because of this, Yemen's capital has been temporarily relocated to the port city of Aden, on the southern coast.
It is well developed, with each of the major islands having at least one significant port city.
The most successful is Ashdod with more than 200,000 inhabitants, a port and developed infrastructure.
After 1707 much of the trade shifted to the port of Glasgow, as trade with America became the new focus.
After Rupert captured Bristol in July 1643, Charles visited the port city and lay siege to Gloucester, further up the river Severn.
King Edward's army initially marched on the prosperous Scottish port of Berwick and by 30 March was camped outside it.
One such event was Wallace's attack on the port of Aberdeen, in which, according to Hary, he burned English ships moored in the harbour.
Mallaig is the main commercial fishing port on the West Coast of Scotland, and during the 1960s was the busiest herring port in Europe.
The port infrastructures were developed to receive coal and oil required for the conflict.
During the ensuing Siege of Leith, French troops fortified the port and town of Leith against an English and Scottish Protestant force.
After the discovery of Peru, it developed into an important port of trade and became an administrative centre.
During the 1520s, the island took the name of Puerto Rico while the port became San Juan.
Manchester had a canal connection to the nearby port of Liverpool via the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
The fishing industry is affected by the crisis affecting the entire industry, and the port has seen its fleet decline.
The movement of coal to ships rapidly became a lucrative business, and the line was soon extended to a new port and town at Middlesbrough.
In 1843 and 1844, sailing ships bringing immigrant families from Alsace arrived at the port of New York.

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