The name Puerto de Caballos ( Port of horses ) is because when Hernán Cortés arrived on Honduras ' coast from Mexico and started unloading horses and cargo from the ships, several horses were drowned.

In 1966, the Empresa Nacional Portuaria ( Honduras National Port Authority ) was created.

The initial phase of Secure Freight involves the deployment of a combination of existing technology and proven nuclear detection devices to six foreign ports: Port Qasim in Pakistan ; Puerto Cortés in Honduras ; Southampton in the United Kingdom ; Port Salalah in Oman ; Port of Singapore ; and the Gamman Terminal at Port Busan in Korea.

* Guillermo Ramón Miranda Talbot – former Puerto Cortés Port Superintendent and former Assistant of the General Manager of Empresa Nacional Portuaria ( Honduras National Port Authority ).

* Mario Alberto Prieto Rodríguez – Former General Manager of Empresa Nacional Portuaria ( Honduras National Port Authority ) and Current President of Liga Nacional de Futbol ( Honduras Professional Football Association ).

* Mario Sierra – Businessman and President of Club Deportivo Platense and current member of the Board of Directors of Empresa Nacional Portuaria ( Honduras National Port Authority ).

* Roberto Valenzuela Simons – Former Mayor of Puerto Cortés, former General Manager of Empresa Nacional Portuaria ( Honduras National Port Authority ), he went into exile to Mexico during military governments.

* Selim Canahuati – Former President of Liga Nacional de Futbol ( Honduras Professional Football Association ), former member of the Board of Directors of Empresa Nacional Portuaria ( Honduras National Port Authority ).

* Since 1986, the Municipality of Puerto Cortés receives four percent ( 4 %) of all revenues ( income ) received by the Honduras Custom office in Puerto Cortés, and four percent ( 4 %) of all revenues received by La Empresa Nacional Portuaria ( Honduras Port Authority ) in the Seaport.

Isenbeck ( Argentina ), Aguila, Club Colombia, Costeña, Poker, Pilsen ( Colombia ), Cristal, Pilsen Callao, Pilsen Trujillo, Cusqueña, Arequipeña ( Peru ), Pilsener, Club ( Ecuador ), Pilsener, Regia, Suprema, Golden Light ( El Salvador ), Port Royal, Salva Vida, Imperial ( Honduras ), Atlas ( Panama ) and Balboa ( Panama ).

On 10 September 1822 the Honduras Packet departed from the Port of London with 70 would-be-settlers aboard.

The 43rd Marine Infantry Battalion of the French Army's Troupes de Marine (: fr: 43e bataillon d ' infanterie de marine ) was based in Port Bouet adjacent to the Abidjan Airport from 1979 and had more than 500 troops assigned until 2011, when it appears to have been disbanded.

Before the 19th century, the first use of the word " police " recorded in government documents in the United Kingdom was the appointment of Commissioners of Police for Scotland in 1714 and the creation of the Marine Police in 1798 ( set up to protect merchandise at the Port of London ).

Baku International Marine Trade Port is the largest port on the Caspian Sea.

The Port Authority operates the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal, which handled the third largest amount of shipping of all ports in the United States in 2004 and the largest on the Eastern Seaboard.

* Port Jersey Marine Terminal in Bayonne and Jersey City

* Brooklyn Port Authority Marine Terminal comprising the Brooklyn Piers and Red Hook Container Terminal in Red Hook, Brooklyn

* Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal in Newark and Elizabeth.

The Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal was the first in the nation to containerize, As of 2004, Port Authority seaports handle the third largest amount of shipping of all U. S. ports, as measured in tonnage.

Shipping container s at the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal in New Jersey, USA

From North Sydney, a ferry route, operated by the Crown corporation Marine Atlantic, continues the highway to Newfoundland, arriving at Channel – Port aux Basques, whereby the Trans-Canada Highway assumes the designation of Highway 1 and runs northeast for through Corner Brook, east for another through Gander and finally ends at St. John's, another southeast, for a total of 905 km crossing the island.

Ainger was born in Sheffield in 1949, and was educated at the Netherthorpe Grammar School in Staveley, Derbyshire, and after leaving education in 1967 moved to Milford Haven and became a dock worker at the Marine and Port Services of Pembroke Dock.

The Elizabeth Marine Terminal is part of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The Golden Isles Terminal Railroad is a short line operating 12. 6 miles ( 20. 3 km ) of mainline trackage between Anguilla Junction and the Colonel's Island and Marine Port terminals of the Port of Brunswick.

With the construction of the interstate highway system and containerization shipping facilities ( particularly at Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal ), the docks became obsolete, and by the 1970s were more or less abandoned.

Since World War II, Elizabeth has seen its transportation facilities grow ; the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal is one of the busiest ports in the world, as is Newark Liberty International Airport, parts of which are actually in Elizabeth.

During part of the 1930s, before the opening of New York City's Marine Air Terminal, Port Washington was the New York base of the Yankee Clipper Boeing 314 seaplane.

Port Royal is also home to Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, SC, and Naval Hospital Beaufort.

Yachts compete in the annual Club Marine Fremantle Harbour Classic, held within the confines of Fremantle Port

He was offered the position of Superintendent of the Bombay Marine at a salary of £ 2000 a year, but he had taken a liking to Australia and was a candidate for the governorship of Port Phillip, although the salary was not expected to be more than £ 800 a year.

For many years he was the President of the Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Marine Society, the Port Society and the St. Nicholas Society.

He serves as the Chief Magistrate of the City of London, Admiral of the Port of London, Chancellor of City University, President of Gresham College, President of City of London Reserve Forces and Cadets Association, and Trustee of St Paul's Cathedral.

* Fly Point-Halifax Park Aquatic Reserve, Port Stephens

* Shiprock Aquatic Reserve, Port Hacking

While some may view DHL's selection of March Air Reserve Base as its new Southern California hub as a " bright spot ", the March JPA and March Global Port operations that brought DHL have been a matter of considerable controversy.

Salt marshes in the northwestern sections of the bay, such as that in the Werribee Sewage Farm and the adjacent Spit Nature Conservation Reserve, are within the Port Phillip Bay ( Western Shoreline ) and Bellarine Peninsula Ramsar Site, listed as wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, and the critically endangered Orange-bellied Parrot is found at three wintering sites with saltmarsh habitat around Port Phillip and the Bellarine Peninsula.

The City of Port Phillip is bounded by White Reserve and Todd Road to the west, the West Gate Freeway, Kings Way and Dorcas Street to the north, St Kilda Road, High Street, Punt Road, Queens Way, Dandenong Road, Orrong Road, Inkerman Street, Hotham Street, Glen Huntly Road, St Kilda Street and Head Street generally to the east and the foreshore of Port Phillip to the south.

Prior to September 11, 2001, Cunningham served as a Third Class Petty Officer, Naval Reserve with Military Sealift Command, Port of Wilmington.

It is located between Port Phillip and Albert Park Lake, which is about halfway across the western side of the Albert Park Reserve ( a state park ), hence the name " Middle " Park.

The Casuarina Forest is located within James Alexander Reserve, and the reserve itself boasts some spectacular views where one is able to see as far as Port Phillip Bay.

The Langwarrin Military Reserve was established in 1886 at what was then deemed to be a strategic elevated location for the defence of Port Phillip Bay and Melbourne from seaborne attack.

The tidal inlet of Merricks Creek at low tide is one of the best places around Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula for skiffle boarding, while the South Beach ( actually to the east of the main beach ) is tucked away behind the belt of foreshore bushland that is Somers Foreshore Reserve, and is enjoyed mainly by local residents, while the main beach, Somers Beach, is home to one of the major yacht clubs in Western Port, Somers Yacht Club.

These few sites contain their favoured salt marsh habitat, and includes sites in or close to Port Phillip such as Werribee Sewage Farm, the Spit Nature Conservation Reserve, the shores of Swan Bay, Swan Island, Lake Connewarre State Wildlife Reserve, Lake Victoria and Mud Islands, as well as French Island in Western Port.

The first units were known as ORTUPS ( Organized Reserve Training Unit, Port Security ) and consisted of reserve officers and enlisted training in port security operations.

At present, Camp Perry is the home of the 213th Ordnance Company ( Missile Support, Corps ), the 372d Missile Maintenance Company ( DS ) Detachment 1, the 200th RED HORSE Civil Engineering Squadron ( Ohio Air National Guard ), U. S. Coast Guard Port Security Unit 309, and the Ohio Naval Militia ( the naval arm of the State of Ohio's Adjutant General's Department and part of Ohio's State Defense Forces ) and the Ohio Military Reserve ( the other part of Ohio's State Defense Forces ).

* Oribi Gorge Nature Reserve close to Port Shepstone,

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.

It is located between Jeffreys Bay and Port Elizabeth and the Gamtoos River Mouth Nature Reserve is in the area.

Born in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey ; educated in the public schools, by private tutor, and at the New York University School of Commerce at New York City ; began his career as a recording violinist for Thomas Edison in 1915 and later held executive positions with the Edison Enterprises ; during the First World War served as a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps 1917-1919 ; lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve 1929-1932 ; colonel in the New Jersey National Guard 1941-1943 ; member of the New Jersey Workmen's Compensation Investigating Commission 1932-1933 ; New Jersey director of the Federal Housing Administration 1934-1935, and as deputy and later as assistant administrator at Washington, D. C. from 1935 to 1938 ; presidential elector in 1940 on the Democratic ticket ; member of the New Jersey State Board of Regents in 1941 and 1942 ; member of the board of directors of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce in 1943 ; commissioner of the Port of New York Authority in 1943 ; appointed on November 26, 1943, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Warren Barbour and served from November 26, 1943, to December 7, 1944, when a duly elected successor qualified ; was not a candidate for election to the vacancy in 1944 ; chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs ( Seventy-eighth United States Congress ); resumed his former business pursuits ; died in New York City, New York ;.

The Mount Cavendish Reserve displays some of the best examples of lava flow to be seen on the Port Hills.