port
Example Sentences
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This network of pipes and huge storage tanks connects to a port where ships unload crude to be refined into gasoline and diesel for the Venezuelan market.
From Barron's
The ambassador warned that retaking control of the port could affect Chinese companies' investment, cooperation and trade with the Darwin region.
From Barron's
Stonepeak counts Trac Intermodal, an infrastructure provider for the movement of containers to and from ports across the U.S., among its current holdings.
Containerships make more port stops and sail at slower speeds to save fuel, pushing most fruit exporters to freight delicate produce by air, which is much more expensive.
Once we come closer to the port, seagulls flying above us, flapping their wings, we notice the huge numbers of homeless outcasts like ourselves.
From Literature
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