A good harbour serves a large fishing fleet.
Walvis Bay Harbour serves as Namibia's chief port.
The Lugger Hotel, on south Cornwall's ridiculously picturesque Portloe harbour, serves some of the finest fresh fish around, including divine oyster-topped chowder.
The harbour, serving domestic and international shipping, imports petroleum products, motor vehicles, and minerals and exports meats, wood products, dairy products, wool, and fruit.
Bangor is now a seaside resort with a small harbour serving as the headquarters of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club; it has some light industry.
Prince Rupert's ice-free harbour serves the lumbering, mining, and agricultural areas of northern British Columbia and is also used by the Alaska Marine Ferries and the British Columbia Ferry System.
The Bristol Ferry Boat Company and Number Seven Boat Trips operate ferry services in the harbour, serving landing stages close to most of the harbour-side attractions.
Larger harbours serving many bigger vessels may be planned and built by government bodies that operate the facility themselves or lease it to a port authority or company.
Not just another country hotel, its restaurant overlooks St Mawes harbour and serves candlelit dinners to classy out-of-towners.
The port of Vung Tau has a pilot station, fuel depot, and sea harbour to serve vessels using the port of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), 45 miles (72 km) up the Soirap River.
Situated in a fertile fruit-, vegetande-, and grape-growing region, Heilbronn is a commercial centre with a harbour that serves as a transloading point on the Rhine-Neckar shipping route.
