Tourism and harbour services at Larne town are the main industries.
Similarly the treaty ports of Canton, Amoy and Shanghai were well-known for the percentages taken from shippers by native intermediaries, customs and assorted other harbour services.
The largest are Kowloon Motor Bus, providing 402 routes in Kowloon and New Territories, and Citybus, operating 154 routes on Hong Kong Island; both run cross-harbour services.
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.
Further down the coast was the gate known in Turkish as Balat Kapı ("Palace Gate"), preceded in close order by three large archways, which served either as gates to the shore or to a harbour that serviced the imperial palace of Blachernae.
Heading south from here, past the 19th century harbour built to service the coal industry, the coast is an appealing mix of limestone cliffs, dramatic headlands and attractive beaches.
Port Mathurin, the main town, has a small harbour with regular steamer service to Mauritius.
YouTube has faced a barrage of criticism from musicians and music-industry bodies in 2016, as part of a campaign in the US and Europe to rework copyright legislation that grants the service "safe harbour" status when users upload copyrighted material without the permission of the rights owners.
We sit alongside colleagues from the police, early years, Harbour drug and alcohol services, the common assessment framework team and the Plymouth Domestic Abuse Service.
In his keynote speech, Taylor welcomed the latter, but drew attention to another area of tension between the music industry and YouTube: the way European "safe harbour" legislation applies to services like YouTube and SoundCloud.
