free port

Odesa’s free port status financed its extraordinary architectural flowering in the 1800s and helped build its vibrant multiethnic society.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2024

Jonty Bloom reports from Teesside, which plans to become the UK's first free port, offering customs-free imports and hoping to bring back manufacturing jobs.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2018

Returning to its pre-revolutionary status of a free port, Vladivostok and the region is now subject to special custom and tax rules.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2015

Other collectors, she added, are starting to move their art to the free port of Luxembourg, where they can store it while the political process unfolds.

From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2015

How thoroughly such a monopoly must check the growth of trade and commerce may be best seen in the stagnation of haughty old Batavia, as compared with the youthful, flourishing free port of Singapore.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer