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

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

He suggests such a government could "carve out a duty free port of call", and be able to do business with other nations.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2015

As fascism tore apart Europe, Shanghai’s status as a free port made it a magnet for refugees.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2014

When the writer was there, in 1862, beef was retailed at fourpence per pound, and Port Stanley being a free port, everything was very cheap.

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