Until the 1840s the strait was called the " Boca del Puerto de San Francisco " ( Mouth of the Port of San Francisco ).

At first the phosphate was barged down the Peace River to Port Boca Grande, where it was loaded onto schooners for worldwide shipment.

But by 1905 it was felt that building a railroad to Port Boca Grande and carrying the phosphate to it by rail should improve the method of shipment.

In 1969 Port Boca Grande ranked as the fourth busiest port in Florida.

As more money was put into developing these ports, traffic into Port Boca Grande began to dwindle, and in 1979 the line was abandoned and the phosphate industry in Boca Grande came to an end.

* Port Boca Grande Light, part of the Gasparilla Island Lights in Boca Grande, Florida

Port call on Buenos Aires ' southside wharf ( La Boca ), circa 1888.

The Port has donated millions of dollars to select Southern California wetlands projects with the most recent donation of more than $ 50 million to the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach, California.

She is vacationing at the Kennedy summer home in Hyannis Port, Mass., and in his welcoming remarks, the President said he was representing her.

Hurricane Carla damaged 70% of the marinas in the Galveston-Port Aransas area but fuel service is back to normal, and explorers can roam as far west as Port Isabel on the Mexican border.

Port Blair is the chief community on the islands, and the administrative centre of the Union Territory.

The only airport in the islands is Vir Savarkar Airport in Port Blair, which has scheduled services to Kolkata and Chennai and Delhi, Banglore and Bhubaneswar.

Located on the south shore of the Columbia, the city is served by the Port of Astoria with a deep-water port.

The Accelerated Graphics Port ( often shortened to AGP ) is a high-speed point-to-point channel for attaching a video card to a computer's motherboard, primarily to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics.

The ferry boat from Tomioka Port in Reihoku, sailing north to Mogi in Nagasaki Prefecture, is operated by Yasuda Sangyo Kisen Co. Ltd.

The Port of Antwerp is one of the largest in Europe and the world

Brian Lara is popularly nicknamed as " The Prince of Port of Spain " or simply " The Prince ".

The largest seaport with the deepest channel to a port in the Adriatic is Port of Rijeka on the northern Croatian coast, followed by Ploče in southern Dalmatia.

The Strait of Canso is completely navigable to Seawaymax vessels, and Port Hawkesbury is open to the deepest-draught vessels on the world's oceans.

For example, the federal government funds Canada Day events at the Old Port of Montreal — an area run by a federal Crown corporation — while the National Holiday parade is a grassroots effort that has been met with pressure to cease, even from federal officials.

The Port of Casablanca is one of the largest artificial ports in the world, and the largest port of North Africa.

The railroad is tied to the Port of Djibouti, which provides port facilities and trade ties to landlocked Ethiopia.

* The Port of Santo Domingo, with its location in the Caribbean, is well suited for flexible itinerary planning and has excellent support, road, and airport infrastructure within the Santo Domingo region, which facilitate access and transfers.

* Haina Occidental Port, located just 20 km west of Santo Domingo, is one of the most important port in the Dominican Republic.

* Port of Puerto Plata is the main commercial port on the north coast of the Dominican Republic.

* Port of San Pedro de Macoris is located on the Higuamo river.

* Central Romana Port, located in La Romana, belong to Central Romana Corporation which is a private company established in 1911 and has the largest sugar mill in the country.

* Cayo Levantado Port or ( Arroyo Barruk / Puerto Duarte ) is located in the Samaná Bay.

* Manzanillo Port is located very close to the Haitian border.

* Port of Cabo Rojo is located in Cabo Rojo, southeast to the border.

* Port of Barahona is located in Barahona, in the bay of Neyba.

The American automaker Ford Motor Company has an assembly plant located on the South Side, and most of the facilities of the Port of Chicago are here.

* Port of Azua in Azua, also called Puerto Viejo is located at Ocoa Bay.

* Palenque Port is located southwest of Santo Domingo.

Other large and busy artificial harbors are located at: Rotterdam, The Netherlands ; Port of Houston, Texas ; Port of Long Beach, California ; and Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, California.

Holden's second full-scale car factory, located in Fishermans Bend ( Port Melbourne ), was completed in 1936, with construction beginning in 1939 on a new plant in Pagewood, New South Wales.

* the Harold Holt Fisheries Reserves – five protected areas in southern Port Phillip, located at Swan Bay, Point Lonsdale, Mud Islands, Point Nepean and Pope ’ s Eye ( The Annulus ).

The Port of Singapore is the busiest port in the Indian Ocean, located in Strait of Malacca where it meets the Pacific.

Along the south coast of Jamaica, a number of small islands are located, such as the Port Royal Cays.

Descendants of the original community still live in the area on the small island of Abdullah Goth, which is located near the Karachi Port. The original name " Kolachi " survives in the name of a well-known Karachi locality named " Mai Kolachi " in Sindhi.

Many historic buildings are also located in city, which were constructed in British era like Karachi Port Trust, Sindh High Court.

The newly built shopping center Port Grand Food and Entertainment Complex is located at Port of Karachi near Native Jetty Bridge.

Port Harcourt, a transshipment port located 66 kilometers from the Gulf of Guinea along the Bonny River in the Niger Delta, handles about 815, 000 tons of cargo each year and also has a railway connection.

Three other international airports are located in Abuja, Kaduna, and Port Harcourt.

The Nigerian Navy command structure today consists of the Naval Headquarters based in Abuja, two operational commands with headquarters in Lagos and Calabar, two training commands with headquarters in Lagos but with training facilities spread all over Nigeria, two operational bases, five forward operational bases ( with two more soon to come on stream ), two dockyards located in Lagos and Port Harcourt and two fleets based in Lagos and Calabar.