Sentence examples for a seaport for from inspiring English sources

But a deal signed this month would transform these placid waters into a seaport for giant cargo ships.

Bassein (Vasai) town was part of the territory of the Hindu Devagiri Yadavas until 1317, and it later became a seaport for the Gujarat Muslim kings.

In Hanseatic times Bremen's importance rested almost entirely on its character as a trading centre and as a seaport for handling raw materials and foodstuffs.

Therefore, the cell microarray chip system also has the potential for detecting malaria as a first screening system with good accuracy, for example, in the case of the necessity of performing early diagnosis of large numbers of people at an airport and/or a seaport for shoreline quarantine.

Nunavut's legislature is kick-starting construction of a new seaport for the high Arctic: a deep-water port at the mouth of the Northwest Passage in Iqaluit, the territory's remote capital city on Baffin Island.

Connected by rail and road to the mainland, Kotka is a major seaport for eastern Finland and an important industrial centre that specializes in lumber, pulp, cellulose, and phosphate exportation, as well as petroleum importation; the city also has sugar refining and flour milling.

It remained undeveloped until the 1960s, when a series of proposals were made to develop the keys in the manner of Miami Beach, and to construct a deepwater seaport for bulk cargo, along with refinery and petrochemical facilities on the mainland shore of Biscayne Bay.

Seattle, a major seaport for commerce with Asia, has container shipping, as well as warehousing facilities that are located northwest and west of the monitoring site, and the Port of Seattle contributes the largest source of oil combustion effluents in Seattle (Kim et al. 2004; Maykut et al. 2003).

Building projects, including the twin citadel, city walls, arsenal, and Kızıl Kule, made it an important seaport for western Mediterranean trade, particularly with Ayyubid Egypt and the Italian city-states.

Last summer's hostilities had been well underway when a prominent Hamas columnist called for a ten-year truce in exchange for a seaport, "according to an agreed work plan".

The demand for a seaport was reportedly agreed in principle, but detailed discussions have been deferred for at least a month.