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
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
As a free port, it was excluded from Europe’s customs union, allowing it to build up its trading and services activities on advantageous transit and taxation terms.
From New York Times • May 5, 2016
The crewmen will then berth the vessel to a free port on the underside of the platform.
From BBC • May 24, 2012
Genoa was a free port in the time of the Republic and under the French Empire, and was continued as such by the treaties of 1814-1815.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various