Sentence examples for foremost port from inspiring English sources

Toamasina is Madagascar's commercial hub and foremost port, handling much of the island's foreign trade.

Canton, however, surged to become the foremost port of East Asia.

Because it has the only safe natural roadstead on the north coast of Asia Minor (Anatolia), Sinope was in antiquity the foremost port on the coast, with its land approaches barred by a huge citadel (now in ruins) and its sea side defended by a strong wall.

The port served as a base for Edward I during the First War of Scottish Independence and later developed into the foremost port on the east coast of England.

The shell tore a 20 feet hole in the hull and rained splinters on the foremost port side 5.9 in gun; approximately 80 tons of water entered the ship.

Dover is the foremost passenger port in the United Kingdom, with a harbour of more than 600 acres (240 hectares); it is the principal cross-Channel ferry port.

It is first and foremost a port — the largest in the world — but, because the city's harbors are too shallow to accommodate modern cargo ships, nowadays much of the real work takes place twenty-five miles to the west, on the North Sea coast.

Gijón's seaport, Puerto del Musel, is Spain's foremost coal-exporting port.

He even included it in his sermons particularly in Bristol, one of the foremost slave trade ports at the time.

Dr. Port is a surgeon first and foremost; she specializes in the care and treatment of patients with breast cancer, and performs over 300 operations a year.

"After that, we go to Crusaders and, like all derby games, that will be a big test too but, first and foremost, we are preparing for the Ports and there is no talk of anything outside of that.