free port
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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
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
The crewmen will then berth the vessel to a free port on the underside of the platform.
From BBC • May 24, 2012
I have seen mentioned the possibility of the conquest and annexation of the free port of Hamburg by a victorious British fleet.
From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Angell, Norman