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

Congress actually passed a bill in 1932 making these buildings a free port, which enabled importers to bring goods in duty free and store them on the premises — a commercial masterstroke.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 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

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

Ostend was made a free port, and large bonding facilities were afforded at Bruges, Brussels, Ghent and Louvain.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various