* 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.

* 1810 – Battle of Grand Port – the French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.

The Port Grand Food and Entertainment Complex is the largest food street of Asia.

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

On 20 September, they entered a sheltered bay which they gave the name of " Port de Warwick " ( present name is " Grand Port ").

From 1666 to 1669, Dirk Jansz Smient administered the new colony at Grand Port, with the cutting down and export of Ebony trees as the main activity.

A preliminary attack was foiled at Grand Port in August 1810, but the main attack launched in December of the same year from Rodrigues, which had been captured a year earlier, was successful.

Despite the only French naval victory ( during the Napoleonic Wars ) of Battle of Grand Port on 19 and 20 August 1810 by a fleet commanded by Pierre Bouvet, Mauritius was captured on 3 December 1810 by the British under Commodore Josias Rowley.

Edison's first telegraphy job away from Port Huron was at Stratford Junction, Ontario, on the Grand Trunk Railway.

* 1810: The Battle of Vieux Grand Port ( Great Old Port ) in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the Island of Mauritius, was the only naval victory won by Napoleon.

The double Thames Lock at Brentford acts as the demarcation point between the Thames, administered by the Port of London Authority, and the River Brent / Grand Union Canal, administered by British Waterways.

The street has held a special place in New Yorkers ' imaginations since at least the turn of the 20th century, and is the site of some of New York's best known buildings, including ( east to west ) the United Nations, Chrysler Building, Grand Central Terminal, Times Square and the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

) Approximately seventy-five years after Port Royal was founded, Acadians migrated from the capital and established what would become the other major Acadian settlements before the Expulsion of the Acadians: Grand Pré, Chignecto, Cobequid ( present-day Truro, Nova Scotia ) and Pisiguit ( present-day Windsor, Nova Scotia ).

* Grand Bahama Island: Freeport Harbour, Lucayan Marina Village and Port Lucaya, or Old Bahama Bay at West End

Port Sheldon Township has many lakefront homes and other inland retreats that serve as summer getaways for residents of Grand Rapids, Detroit, and Chicago.

Over time, as other discoveries were made, The Freeport Sulphur Company also used the Port Sulphur facility to support their other Frasch Process sulphur mines located at Garden Island Bay, LA ; Lake Pelto, LA ; Caillou Island, LA ; a land based mine at Chacahoula, LA ; The first offshore sulphur mines at Grand Isle, LA and Caminada Pass, LA ; and a large operation 50 miles offshore from the Mississippi River Delta in 300 feet of water, at Main Pass Block 299 in the Gulf of Mexico.

Canadian National provides Class 1 Freight service to Mt Clemens with the old Grand Trunk Western Detroit to Port Huron line.

The West Olive ZIP code 49460 serves northern and west portion of Olive Township as well as most of Port Sheldon Township and the southern portions of Grand Haven Township and Robinson Township.

In 1859, a 12 year-old Thomas A. Edison was given his first job as a newsboy on the Grand Trunk Western Railroad line between Port Huron and Detroit.

In the 1836, the settlement was named Grand Port, but remained unincorporated within Ecorse Township.

This was Britain's first naval defeat since the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812 and the first of a British naval squadron since the Battle of Grand Port in 1810.

* Dublin Port Tunnel – similar project on a smaller scale in Ireland

Completed in 1989 by the Port of Antwerp, which De Nul helped build, the company still has engineers and specialists who were part of that project.

In the late 1990s, a 12-year harbor-deepening project for the Port of Oakland began ; it was largely completed by September 2009.

Four dredging companies were employed in the $ 432 million project, with $ 244 million paid for with federal funds and $ 188 million supplied by the Port of Oakland.

In 2011 a new project of cruise turnarounds was launched in cooperation with Tallinn Passenger Port and Happy Cruises.

In 2008, Cook founded a project called The Brighton Port Authority.

This, combined with the immaturity of the technology and other factors, led the Port Authority to abandon the project and pursue alternatives.

A 5, 000-6, 000 m³ ( 30, 000-40, 000 barrel ) per day oil refinery project in which there is an American interest also is under development in Port Moresby.

Investor Larry Silverstein said that the Port Authority's estimated completion date for the entire site was 2037, and that billions of dollars had already been spent on the project, even though Ground Zero " is still a hole in the ground.

Several large hotel projects like the Port Charles Marina project in Speightstown helped the tourism industry continue to expand in 1996 – 99, and more recently the new Hilton Hotel on Needhams Point, Saint Michael in 2005.

The French-Canadian geologist, Pierre Jesson, acquired a copy of the newspaper whilst engaged on a project with BP in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

Missionary Sheldon Jackson's greatest success with his reindeer project was at Port Clarence, which figured in the Overland Expedition in 1897 to save marooned whalers near Point Barrow.

Currently, the Port Alexander Historical Society is undertaking the project of creating a small museum celebrating the town's history.

This work was sponsored by the Society for the Restoration of Port Tobacco, which is helping a public archeology project on the entire town.

The Village of Port Jefferson's Main Street and East Main Street were featured as part of National Public Radio's " Mapping Main Street " project in Spring 2010.

The bid and the project had to be split into smaller sections, but £ 11. 9 million was awarded in 2006 for phase 1a, which with match funding will restore navigation from ' The Ocean ' at Stonehouse to Wallbridge on the Stroudwater Navigation, and from Wallbridge to Brimscombe Port on the Thames and Severn Canal.

An extensive port project was proposed in 1948, and construction work began on the Port of Latakia in 1950, aided by a US $ 6 million loan from Saudi Arabia.

Increased passenger traffic led the Massachusetts Port Authority ( Massport ) to embark on a major airport renewal project called the " Logan Modernization Project " from 1994 to 2006.

As for Port of Entry, Reeves was never able to gain financing for the project, and the show was never made.

* Rose Garden Project, common name for the Port and Airport Development Strategy, a Hong Kong infrastructure project

These issues are being addressed as the project continues through the three-year preconstruction engineering and design phase, which is being cost-shared with the Maryland Port Administration.

The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, a U. S. Army Corps of Engineers project providing navigation on the Tombigbee River and a link to the Port of Mobile, enters Tennessee near the Tennessee-Alabama-Mississippi boundary.

NJT referred to the project as Access to the Region's Core, which would have used dual-power locomotives and a new rail junction at Secaucus, allowing for a one-train ride between the Port Jervis, Main, Bergen County, Pascack Valley, and Raritan Valley lines and New York Penn Station.

Both the Federal Transit Administration and the Port Authority made public commitments of $ 3 billion to the project.