Sentence examples for Shipping centre from inspiring English sources

Tønsberg remains an industrial and shipping centre, with such diverse concerns as metal shops, shipyards, paper mills, leather processing, and breweries; it is noted especially for its silverware.

On the way we stopped at this huge outlet shipping centre that had a mini train and railway tracks.

Mariupol, an important industrial and shipping centre in the Donetsk region that is planning to hold a secessionist referendum on Sunday, has been the focus of frequent skirmishes in recent days.

As a shipping centre Nyköping has been supplanted by Oxelösund.

The city is an important European shipping centre.

Passau was an important medieval trade and shipping centre.

Bonners Ferry became an important timber-shipping centre in the 1920s and remains so.

The coastal range tapers off to form the Barcelona Gap near the state capital, Barcelona, a cattle- and coffee-shipping centre on the Neverí River.

The southern Pacific port of Golfito, once an important banana-shipping centre, handles little trade since the decline of banana production there.

The Ohio and Erie Canal (opened from Akron to Massillon in 1828) led to the community's early development as a major wheat-shipping centre.

It is a major jute-shipping centre, connected by road and rail with Comilla, near the eastern border with India, and Noakhali to the southeast.