free port
Example Sentences
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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
It may be that a free port and international status for the town, with Italian sovereignty in cultural questions, would best serve the Allied and European cause, especially during the years of transition.
From The Guardian • May 6, 2020
As fascism tore apart Europe, Shanghai’s status as a free port made it a magnet for refugees.
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2014
The crewmen will then berth the vessel to a free port on the underside of the platform.
From BBC • May 24, 2012
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.
