** By road to Maiduguri, in Nigeria, and then by rail to Port Harcourt

Niger relies on the port at Cotonou ( Benin ), and to a lesser degree Lomé ( Togo ), and Port Harcourt ( Nigeria ), as its main route to overseas trade.

Niger relies on the port at Cotonou, and to a lesser degree Lomé ( Togo ), and Port Harcourt ( Nigeria ), as its main route to overseas trade.

Now called Calabar, the city remained an important port shipping ivory, timber, beeswax, and palm produce until 1916, when the railway terminus was opened at Port Harcourt, 145 km to the west.

* Port Harcourt — 2, 400mm

* Bonny ( south of Port Harcourt ) — 4, 200mm

Most of their programming is aimed for the African and global markets, but is broadcast globally from Lagos, Abuja, Obosi and Port Harcourt centers.

The country has two major rail lines: one connects Lagos on the Bight of Benin and Nguru in the northern state of Yobe ; the other connects Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta and Maiduguri in the northeastern state of Borno.

21 July 2007: YENEGOA-PORT HARCOURT LINE-According to the Daily Champion ( published in Lagos ), the Nigerian states Bayelsa and Rivers are to embark on the construction of a high-speed rail line to connect Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital, and Port Harcourt.

A new port is under construction at Onne about 25 kilometers south of Port Harcourt.

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.

** Nigerian forces capture Port Harcourt and form a ring around the Biafrans.

The Nigerian pygmy hippopotamus ranged in the Niger River Delta, especially near Port Harcourt, but no reliable reports exist after the collection of the museum specimens secured by I. R. P. Heslop, a British colonial officer, in the early 1940s.

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

He was a Third-class Clerk, Treasury Department, Lagos ( 1921 – 1924 ); Recruit, Gold Coast Police Force ( Jul .- September 1924 ); Solicitor Clerk to the late Mr. Justice Graham Paul at Calabar ( Jan .- Aug. 1925 ); Instructor in Political Science, Lincoln University ( 1931 – 34 ); University Correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American ( 1928 – 34 ); General and Sports Correspondent for the Philadelphia Tribune ( 1928 – 34 ); Editor-in Chief of the West African Pilot ( 1937 – 45 ); Correspondent for the Associated Negro Press ( 1944 – 47 ); Correspondent for Reuters ( 1944 – 46 ); Managing Director of Zik ’ s Press Limited printers and publishers of the West African Pilot ( Lagos ), Eastern Guardian ( Port Harcourt ), Nigerian Spokesman ( Onitsha ), Southern Nigeria Defender ( Ibadan ), Daily Comet ( Kano ), and Eastern Sentinel ( Enugu ); Managing Director of Comet Press Limited ( 1945 – 53 ); Chairman of West African Pilot Limited and the Associated Newspapers of Nigeria Limited and six other limited liability companies ( 1952 – 53 ); Chairman, Nigerian Real Estate Corporation Limited ( 1952 – 53 ); etc.

( Port Harcourt ), a Nigerian football team

As of late 2007, the largest capacity Eckankar Temple was in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria, with a total capacity of 10, 000.

** Port Harcourt

Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers state in southern Nigeria, is named after him.

In August 1913, the Governor – General of Nigeria, Sir Frederick Lugard wrote to Harcourt, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, " in the absence of any convenient local name, I would respectfully ask your permission to call this Port Harcourt ", to which the Secretary of State replied, " It gives me pleasure to accede to your suggestion that my name should be associated with the new Port.

The Port of Genoa, with a trade volume of 58. 6 million tonnes it is the first port of Italy, the second in terms of twenty-foot equivalent units after the port of transshipment of Gioia Tauro, with a trade volume of 1. 86 million TEUs.

Port duties have declined dramatically since the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway allowed shipping directly to the lower lakes and dramatically lowered costs compared to transshipment via Owen Sound.

Port Arthur thrived as a transshipment and grain handling port for the CNR after the railway line was opened to Winnipeg in December 1901.

Port Klang, which is located in the Klang District, is the 13th busiest transshipment port and the 16th busiest container port in the world.

Grand Bahama's tourism sector is complemented by an oil bunkering facility owned by Vopak and a transshipment / container port partly owned by Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa and the Grand Bahama Port Authority.

As a transshipment and storage hub accredited by the London Metal Exchange, Jurong Port ’ s General Cargo Terminal also handles metal ingots.

APM Terminals, part of the A. P. Moller-Maersk Group of Denmark, manages the Port of Salalah ; one of the largest ports on the Arabian Peninsula which is an important transshipment hub for container shipping in the area.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey which leases the Howland Hook facility is contracting out the construction of an intermodal rail yard using part of the former Ivory Soap factory site to help with ship to rail transshipment.

The Port of Beirut has been selected as a transshipment hub for the 2nd and 3rd largest container shipping companies in the world, Swiss-based Mediterranean Shipping Company ( MSC ) and French-based Compagnie Maritime d ’ Affrètement-Compagnie Générale Maritime ( CMA-CGM ).

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

In recent years, the Port Authority has established it as one of the most important ports in Spain for cruises, with 72 calls to port made by cruise ships in 2007 bringing some 80, 000 passengers and 30, 000 crew to the city each year.

By the late 1950s, the once-prosperous port area of downtown Manhattan was occupied by a number of dilapidated shipping piers, casualties of the rise of container shipping which drove sea traffic to Port Elizabeth, New Jersey.

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.

Port Hawkesbury has risen to prominence since the completion of the Canso Causeway and Canso Canal created an artificial deep-water port, allowing extensive petrochemical, pulp and paper, and gypsum handling facilities to be established.

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.

* 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.

The docks were formerly part of the Port of London, at one time the world's largest port.

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

Adams convinced Gerry to reenter politics after the Boston Port Act closed that city's port, and Marblehead became a port to which relief supplies could be delivered.

The port at Port-au-Prince, Port international de Port-au-Prince, has more registered shipping than any of the over dozen ports in the country.

Since German reunification in 1990, and the accession of some Central European and Baltic States into the European Union in 2004, the Port of Hamburg has restarted ambitions for regaining its position as the region's largest deep-sea port for container shipping and its major commercial and trading centre.

Although the world's busiest port is a hotly contested title, in 2006 the world's busiest harbour by cargo tonnage was the Port of Shanghai.

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

Mumbai Port is the chief trading port in India on the coast of the Indian Ocean, often known as " The Gateway of India ".

A new port has been developed near Mumbai known as the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust ( JNPT ) or more popularly known as Nhava Sheva to reduce the burden on Mumbai.

The process continued in the modern period with extension of shorelines and building of artificial islands for industrial and port development, such as Port Island in Kobe and the new Kansai International Airport in Osaka Bay.

Apart from the international airport, the Port of Beirut is another port of entry.

The modern port is still sometimes called the " Port of Hercules ".

When placed on the external address bus, it replicates the original functions of B and C. Port A has input capture, output compare, pulse accumulator, and other timer functions ; port D has serial I / O, and port E has an analog to digital converter ( ADC ).

* 1774 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.