Whereas under the Japanese it was essentially an exporting port, sending raw materials for processing to Japan, it is now primarily an importing centre for Taipei.
Once the widening of the Panama Canal is completed in 2014, Houston will become an attractive port for Asian goods being shipped to the central and eastern states; it is already, in effect, the principal export port for prosperous northern Mexico.Dallas-Fort Mexico.Dallas-Fort Worth lies at the centre of a large number of logistics and distribution centres.
Since the late 20th century Santa-Clara has been the site of a mineral-exporting port (for iron, manganese, and uranium), part of the Owendo port complex at the western terminus of the Trans-Gabon Railway.
Data on the export volumes of the five largest soybean-producing States is used to calculate the extent of the bullwhip effect caused by the demands for port services from these producer States on the main exporting ports.
Cardiff was once the largest coal-exporting port in the world and, for a few years before the First World War, handled a greater tonnage of cargo than either London or Liverpool.
It is a major port for exporting iron ore from neighboring Sweden.
It was an important port for exporting goods to the British Isles and beyond.
The idea was first put forward to Bute by one of his staff in 1822, who suggested that, with the right investment, Cardiff could be transformed into a major port for exporting coal and iron.
On September 7, the Dos Bocas and Cayo Arcas ports, Mexico's two main crude oil export ports, closed in preparation for the storm.
The need for a railway was driven by the export needs of Jämtland, which needed an ice-free port for export of timber and lumber.
