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
After all, this is what has happened in Shannon - free port status was not really compatible with membership of the EU, and the tax breaks were whittled away until they finally disappeared in 2016.
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
On my arrival, I repeated what I had written; namely, the idea of getting New Orleans, or at least to advise the Spaniards to make it a free port.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Volume X (of 12) by Various
