The contending cities are: Atlanta, Chicago, Galveston, Houston, San Juan, and Miami in the United States ; Cancún and Puebla in Mexico ; Panama City, Panama ; and Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

The Port of Galveston was established in 1825 by the Congress of Mexico following its successful independence from Spain.

In 1825 the Congress of Mexico established the Port of Galveston and in 1830 erected a customs house.

Development was also hindered by the construction of the Houston Ship Channel, which brought the Port of Houston into direct competition with the natural harbor of the Port of Galveston for sea traffic.

The Galveston Railway, originally established and named in 1854 as the Galveston Wharf and Cotton Press Company, is a Class III terminal switching railroad that primarily serves the transportation of cargo to and from the Port of Galveston.

Groves ' duties included opening the channel at Port Isabel and supervising dredging operations in Galveston Bay.

The Port of Texas City, however, was able to re-open almost immediately allowing shipping through Galveston County to continue largely unimpeded and proving the merit of the new port city.

In the 1940s and 1950s, the Port of Beaumont was as important as New Orleans, Houston, or Galveston, and Nederland thrived as a result.

The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway enters Galveston Bay at Port Bolivar, Texas

" Looking ahead, Pelican Island may be next in line: Port of Houston buys land, could join Galveston in a joint effort.

When the railroad reached Houston joint ownership of the Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad gave the Katy immediate access to the Port of Galveston and access to ocean-going traffic on the Gulf of Mexico.

The Port of Houston is a cooperative entity consisting of both the port authority, which operates the major terminals along the Houston Ship Channel, and more than 150 private companies situated along Buffalo Bayou and Galveston Bay.

Early supporters would prove to be correct ; the port has grown to be one of the world's largest, overtaking the nearby Port of Galveston in significance.

* Port of Galveston

The section of Port Arthur within the Sabine Pass School District is assigned to Galveston College in Galveston.

The Houston Ship Channel, connecting the Port of Houston to the Gulf, passes through Galveston Bay.

Port Bolivar is an unincorporated area located in the Bolivar Peninsula census-designated place, in Galveston County, Texas, United States state of Texas within Galveston County and part of the metropolitan area.

Ferry service is provided by the Texas Department of Transportation between Port Bolivar and Galveston.

Port Jervis, basking in the foothills, was the city of God.

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

Barges are also used for very heavy or bulky items ; a typical barge measures 195 by 35 feet ( 59. 4 m × 10. 6 m ), and can carry up to 1, 500 tons catalytic cracking unit reactor was shipped by barge from the Tulsa Port of Catoosa in Oklahoma to a refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

The boomerang was first encountered by western people at Farm Cove ( Port Jackson ), Australia, in December 1804 where its use as a weapon was witnessed during a tribal skirmish:

In 1822 it was described in detail and recorded as a " bou-mar-rang ", in the language of the Turuwal people ( a sub-group of the Dharug ) of the Georges River near Port Jackson.

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.

Historically, this proceeded from the labours of Jean de Launoy ( 1603 – 1678 ), " le dénicheur des saints ", and Louis Sébastien le Nain de Tillemont, who had shown the falsity of numerous lives of the saints ; while theologically it was produced by the Port Royal school, which led men to dwell more on communion with God as contrasted with the invocation of the saints.

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.

It was later joined in the suit by the Port Authority of New York.

In 1613, Virginian raiders captured Port Royale, and in 1621 Acadia was ceded to Scotland's Sir William Alexander who renamed it Nova Scotia.

By 1632, Acadia was returned from Scotland to France under the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and the Port Royale settlement was moved to the site of nearby present-day Annapolis Royal.

This was in addition to the appropriate honorary dignity, which was due by virtue of being the Senior Bishop of the main Metropolis of the Province, Alexandria, which also the Capital and the main Port of the Province.

The town was home to the civil engineer and calculating prodigy George Parker Bidder ( 1806 – 1878 ), who is notable for his work on railways over much of the world, as well as the docks of the East End in the Port of London.

Government troops joined forces with the rebels and the railway to the Treaty Port of Tientsin was interrupted.

* An agreement concerning the use of the Port of Djibouti and the transit of cargo, was signed in Djibouti between the two countries on 13 April 2002, and ratified by the Ethiopian Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 4 June of the same year.

A protocol concerning Ethiopian access to Port Sudan was signed between the two countries 5 March 2000 in Khartoum, and this protocol and its subsequent amendment were ratified by the Ethiopian Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 3 July 2003.

In October her body was brought from Kyūshū by sea to Port Naniwa-zu ( today Osaka city ); and her state funeral was held in early November.

The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, which was an amendment to the larger and unrelated SAFE Port Act, included " carve out " language that clarified the legality of fantasy sports.

John Byron, who was unaware of the French presence in the east, explored Saunders Island, in the west, named the harbour Port Egmont, and claimed this and other islands for Britain on the grounds of prior discovery.

In December 1978 he was appointed as a coach at Port Vale, being demoted to reserve coach in October 1978 as the team struggled, before being dismissed in 1979.

A person buried at the Maritime Archaic site at Port au Choix, Newfoundland, dating to about 2000 BC, was found surrounded by more than 200 Great Auk beaks, which are believed to have been part of a suit made from their skins, with the heads left attached as decoration.

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.

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

A second refinery at Port Stanvac, south of Adelaide, came on-stream in 1963, but was closed in 2003.

The last penal settlement in Tasmania at Port Arthur finally closed in 1877.

The St Kilda and Port Melbourne railway lines were converted to light rail lines in 1987, with the lines closed on 1 July 1987 and 11 October 1987 respectively.

The Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company opened a dock at Port Talbot and the Llyfni Railway in 1897, followed by the Ogmore Valley Extension and the South Wales Mineral Junction Railway ( almost all these lines were closed as part of the Beeching Axe cuts in the mid 1960s, but some bridges and viaducts remain and many of these railway routes have re-emerged as recreational cycle tracks ).

Russia wasted little time after the Triple Intervention to move men and materials down into the Liaodong to start building a railroad from both ends — Port Arthur and Harbin, as it already had railway construction in progress across northern Inner Manchuria to shorten the rail route to Russia's sole Pacific Ocean naval base at Sakhalin Island, a port closed by ice four months of each year.

The Freeport-McMoRan Port Sulphur facility was closed and sold.

Port Sanilac's last elementary school closed in the early 1980s and the building is now used as the Bark Shanty Community Center.

The city was served by Point Comfort Elementary School ( Point Comfort ), but is now closed, Travis Middle School ( Port Lavaca ) and Calhoun High School ( Port Lavaca )

The tramway opened in 1891 but closed in 1898 as the smelters moved to Port Pirie.

There was formerly a research station at Port Erin on the Isle of Man until it closed in 2006.

The line running from Stourbridge to Walsall via Dudley Port and Wednesbury closed in the 1960s, but the Birmingham to Wolverhampton line via Tipton is still a major transport route.

* The Port of New Orleans and the Mississippi River were closed to Americans, being territory of Spain restored to her by the Treaties of 1783.

Under the terms of the Boston Port Act, Gage closed the Boston port, which caused much unemployment and discontent.

The line to Port Alma closed on 15 October 1986.

So as the Japanese fleet closed in, Li recommended the convoys be stopped, and that the Beiyang fleet be kept within its naval stronghold in Lushunkou ( Port Arthur ).

Port Columbus International Airport was formerly a hub of America West Airlines in the 1990s, but the company closed the hub in 2003.

This line had served stations at Dudley Port Lower Level and Great Bridge North, but both were closed in 1964 by the Beeching Axe.

The Boston Port Act, the first of the acts passed in response to the Boston Tea Party, closed the port of Boston until the East India Company had been repaid for the destroyed tea and until the king was satisfied that order had been restored.

The Port Edwards plant was closed in 2008.

The authority originally operated all the enclosed dock systems on the river, but all these have been closed to commercial traffic, with the exception of Port of Tilbury which was privatised in 1992.