The Hong Kong-based firm, Hutchison Whampoa, has opened a container port in Freeport.

By the late 20th century, Hong Kong was the seventh largest port in the world and second only to New York and Rotterdam in terms of container throughput.

The container port in Hong Kong is one of the busiest in the world.

The Cruise ship | cruise-ship pier at Ocean Terminal ( Hong Kong ) | Ocean Terminal is also a port of entry to Hong Kong.

After China ceded Hong Kong to the British in 1842, Macau's position as a major regional trading center declined further still because larger ships were drawn to the deep water port of Victoria Harbor.

Additionally, Hong Kong is a major international port serving as an important trade center for China.

In 2007, the Port of Singapore is ranked the world's busiest port once again, surpassing Hong Kong and Shanghai.

The port of Naples is one of the most important in Europe, and has the world's second-highest level of passenger flow, after the port of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is a free port and generally does not impose duties on imported or exported goods, with the exceptions of liquors, tobacco, methyl alcohol and hydrocarbon oil.

In the summer of 1860, a larger Anglo-French force ( 11, 000 British under General James Hope Grant, 6, 700 French under General Cousin-Montauban ) with 173 ships sailed from Hong Kong and captured the port cities of Yantai and Dalian to seal the Bohai Gulf.

In the last decade of the 19th century increasing diplomatic and trade activity by France in Kwangtung ( now Guangdong ) Province and the granting of a concession to Belgian interests to construct a railway from Peking ( now Beijing ) to Hankow ( later extended to Canton ( now Guangzhou )), led to British diplomatic and commercial concerns about protecting Hong Kong as the major trading port for South China.

With the decline in importance of Macau, which was overtaken as the main port for the Pearl River Delta by Hong Kong, the cathedral's fortunes similarly ebbed, and it was destroyed by a fire during a typhoon in 1835.

Hong Kong adopted the " port of first asylum policy " in July 1979 and received over 100, 000 Vietnamese at the peak of emigration in the late 1980s.

Kwai Chung is the home of the principal commercial cargo handling area of Hong Kong, the Kwai Chung Container Terminal, one of the largest and busiest port facilities in the world.

When Hong Kong was established as a free trading port in 1841, there was no local currency in everyday circulation.

The typhoon shelter not only hosted fishermen, but was also a port in Hong Kong.

Victoria Harbour is home to most of the port facilities of Hong Kong, making Hong Kong amongst the world's busiest.

Overall, the Hong Kong port has also lost out to the Port of Singapore in containers handled, with Singapore's port outpacing Hong Kong's since the first quarter of 2005.

Coleco licensed Nintendo's Donkey Kong as the official pack-in cartridge for all ColecoVision consoles, and this version of the game was well received as a near-perfect arcade port, helping to boost the console's popularity.

As with the past two Donkey Kong Country games, a Game Boy Advance port was developed by Rare.

However, there was a delay in opening the port and so he served instead at the consulate in Canton ( Guangzhou ) and as assistant to the Chinese Secretary in Hong Kong.

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.

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.