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port

noun as in place for boat docking, traffic, and storage

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The ship was moved out of the port area overnight and anchored offshore in open water as firefighters continued to combat the blaze Saturday morning, according to the U.S.

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Fall is a busy time for trucking companies as retailers and manufacturers move clothes, furniture and electronics from ports and factories to warehouses, distribution centers and stores for the year-end holidays.

At one of China’s biggest ports, shipping containers whiz about on self-driving trucks with virtually no workers in sight, while the port’s scheduling is run by AI.

The company, based in Gorinchem near the port of Rotterdam, is accused of having continued to deliver goods and technology to Russia despite European Union curbs on Moscow.

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The Mexican naval training ship that crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge in May, leaving two crew members dead, returned home on Sunday to official fanfare in the port of Veracruz.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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