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
For Ben Houchen, the Mayor of the Tees Valley and the man behind the idea, turning Teesside into a free port is just common sense.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2018
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
It ought to be a free port open to the vessels of all nations trading to any part of the East Indias.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway
