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

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

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

By this Hamburg was to enter the Zollverein; a part of the 886 harbour was to remain a free port, and the empire contributed two million pounds towards rearranging and enlarging the harbour.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various