Sentence examples for blocking the port from inspiring English sources
"It's akin to blocking the port in a way.
Fishermen and other residents were blocking the port with boats taken from the migrants, the police said.
The Ministry of Defense failed on Friday to get an injunction stopping Greenpeace from blocking the port but did obtain a limited ruling preventing the activists from boarding or touching ships chartered to carry military supplies.
The workers have been intermittently blocking the port in Calais.
If you use a VPN connection these functions will not be affected by blocking the ports at the firewall.
Philippe Mignonet told the BBC: "We will block the port – as simple as that.
"We will block the tunnel, we will block the port," the Sunday Times quoted Vercoutre as saying.
The army team steered the ferry to the military port of Toulon, since strikers continued to block the port at Marseille.
Workers blocked the port of Calais then the entrance to the Channel tunnel with burning barricades, snarling up traffic in the area and across the sea in Kent.
The government made plans on Monday to move thousands of illegal Tunisian migrants off the island of Lampedusa to other parts of Italy after furious residents blocked the port to protest the crisis.
