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The port has diminished in importance to passenger travel, but the Port Authority operates all three major airports in New York ( La Guardia, 1939 and JFK / Idlewild, 1948 ) and Newark ( 1928 ).
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At the port city of Jaffa ( today part of Tel Aviv ) an outcrop of rocks near the harbour has been associated with the place of Andromeda's chaining and rescue by the traveler Pausanias, the geographer Strabo and the historian of the Jews Josephus.
The port of Alicante has been reinventing itself since the industrial decline the city suffered in the 1980s ( with most mercantile traffic lost to Valencia's harbour ).
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.
The city has a river port, industry enterprises, Katanov State University of Khakasia, and three theatres.
It also has changes in the cartridge port address lines to allow for the Atari 2600 adapter released that year.
Shell has indentation of where expansion port was to be.
The Hong Kong-based firm, Hutchison Whampoa, has opened a container port in Freeport.
A proposed rail link between Ouagadougou and Pô in Burkina Faso and Kumasi and Boankra in Ghana, has been discussed with Ghanaian officials, and feasibility studies are being undertaken to explore this possibility, which would provide rail access to the inland port of Bonakra.
Basel has Switzerland's only cargo port, through which goods pass along the navigable stretches of the Rhine and connect to ocean-going ships at the port of Rotterdam.
Harbor activity is concentrated at Abidjan ( West Africa ’ s largest container port ), which has facilities that include a fishing port and equipment for handling containers, and San Pedro, a deepwater port that began operations in 1971.
Sydney has traditionally been the main port, with various facilities in a large, sheltered, natural harbour.
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.
Since privatization was implemented in 1993, the efficiency of port handling has increased greatly.
Guangdong has long been a trading port and many imported foods and ingredients are used in Cantonese cuisine.
The port would handle 2 million containers per year, while as of 2007, there has been no official announcement of a project not universally welcomed due to its environmental, economic and cultural impact.
The Cook Islands was not the only island group visited by the traders, but Penrhyn Atoll was their first port of call and it has been estimated that three-quarters of the population was taken to Callao, Peru.
However, much of the infrastructure — vessels and port handling facilities — has, like the railways, suffered from poor maintenance and internal conflict.
The port of Djibouti functions as a small French naval facility, and the United States also has stationed hundreds of troops in Djibouti, its only African base, in an effort to counter terrorism in the region.
Djibouti has allowed the U. S. military, as well as other nations, access to its port and airport facilities.
* Upon approaching the port, ships must display a quarantine flag, which has the letter ' Q ' on it, and wait for admittance into the port.
Darwin has grown from a pioneer outpost and small port into one of Australia's most modern and multicultural cities.
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In former years copra was collected by traders going from island to island and port to port in the Pacific Ocean but South Pacific production is now much diminished, with the exception of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
When Trieste became a free port in 1719, Koper lost its monopoly on trade, and its importance diminished further.
However, after the Malacca Empire conquered the town, its influence as a leading port in the Southeast Asian region diminished as most of the traders preferred to stop at Melaka, which was the center of trade between China, India and Southeast Asia.
Its function as a port diminished as coffee began to be shipped by truck.
Today, the city's importance as a shipping port has diminished, but it still plays a significant role in Vietnam's offshore oil industry.
The political importance of Orford Castle diminished after Henry's death in 1189, although the port of Orford grew in importance, however, handling more trade than the more famous port of Ipswich by the beginning of the century.
The importance of Appledore as a port diminished suddenly in the 13th-century when great storms caused the river Rother to change its course ; the village street now leads down to the Royal Military Canal.
Excavations have uncovered several buildings that attest to the commercial vitality of the port throughout the Roman Empire and into the 7th century, when maritime activity and local habitation apparently diminished.
The opening of the canal diminished the commercial viability of the port of Newburyport, Massachusetts, the outlet of the Merrimack River, since all trade from the Merrimack Valley in New Hampshire now went via the canal to Boston, rather than through the sometimes difficult to navigate river.
Whilst this diminished Sovetskaya Gavan's importance as a trading port, until the 1990s it remained an important supply harbor for the Russian Pacific Fleet.
However, the bay is suffering from silting up as a result of soil erosion from surrounding hills, and the water depth at wharfside has diminished from 6 m to 1. 8 m which threatens the economic future of the port.
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As the chief port of north-west Asia Minor, the place prospered greatly in Roman times, becoming a " free and autonomous city " as early as 188 BC, and the existing remains sufficiently attest its former importance.
The port of Ploče is of strategic importance for the industries of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
During the 14th century, under the Merinids, Anfa rose in importance as a port.
Dartmouth was of strategic importance as a deep-water port for sailing vessels.
The strategic importance of the site was increased by the fact that it lay on a major river estuary, where vessels could dock at the port of Suso.
The British realised the importance of the city as a military cantonment and as a port for exporting the produce of the Indus River basin, and rapidly developed its harbour for shipping.
On the imports side, Mexican improvements in port efficiency would appear to be the most important factor, although for imports of transport equipment, improvements in service sector infrastructure would also be of relative importance.
It only lacks a good port and suitable landing places, without which the island is of no use, but with them it would be of the greatest importance for Great Britain.
For centuries a major administrative, shipping, and trading town, Shanghai grew in importance in the 19th century due to European recognition of its favorable port location and economic potential.
The 19th century brought industrialization of the city and the port kept its importance.
Thessaloniki is Greece's second major economic, industrial, commercial and political centre, and a major transportation hub for the rest of southeastern Europe ; its commercial port is also of great importance for Greece and the southeastern European hinterland.
They quickly established a fort there, and with time a community sprang up and achieved importance as port of call, missionary base and a trading centre.
The extreme ease with which the English destroyed Puerto Bello ( not regain its importance to the construction port Panama Canal ) led to a change in British plans.
The trade and shipbuilding importance of Sevastopol's port has been growing since the fall of the Soviet Union, despite the difficulties that arise from the joint military control over its harbours and piers.
Houghton gained in importance as a port with the opening of the Keweenaw Waterway in 1873 ; the waterway being the cumulative dredging and extension of the Portage Lake, Portage Shipping Canal and Lily Pond so as to isolate the northern part of the Keweenaw Peninsula into Copper Island.
Mar Piccolo is a military port with strategic importance.
The growing importance of the Transvaal led, however, to greater interest being taken in Portugal in the port.
During the Ottoman period, Trabzon, because of the importance of its port, became a focal point of trade to Iran and the Caucasus.
At the time of the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the port of Adria had lost most of its importance.
Bruges has a significant economic importance thanks to its port.
The coming of the railways, the building of a ferry port, and its growing importance as a seaside resort all contributed to its growth.
Port Bolivar on the Bolivar Peninsula was a port of secondary importance.
In ancient Greece, Piraeus assumed its importance with its three deep water harbours, the main port of Cantharus and the two smaller of Zea and Munichia, and gradually replaced the older and shallow Phaleron harbour, which fell into disuse.
In 1963, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers created Lake Walter F. George ( unofficially named Lake Eufaula ) behind the lock and dam of Fort Gaines, Georgia, once again assuring Eufaula's importance as an inland port.
Due to the historical importance of Palatka as a southeastern interior port, much of the urban development is oriented toward the riverfront.
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