Colombo's harbour has tripled in size, though most of its wharves stand empty.
While that land commands premium prices, the PLA needs to preserve its wharves.
Loads of great stuff is clustered under its roof and alongside its wharves, from Tindal Street Press to artists' studios, but on Saturday mornings the Custard Factory (custardfactory.co.uk) plays host to Eastside's meandering fleamarket.
The base was also useful to thousands of Cuban laborers who earned their livelihood on its wharfs and in its machine shops and warehouses.
For decades the small seaside neighborhood on the northwest coast of Napier, New Zealand, was dominated by its wharf, cavernous warehouses left empty as the wool industry declined, and rough-and-tumble pubs frequented by local dock workers.
Its wharf setting, just a seagull's hop from a working seafood market, is the right spot to teach kids how to slurp down oysters and clams (401-846-5264, www.blackpearlnewport.com).
Its wharf, 10 miles (16 km) upstream, can accommodate vessels of 16-foot (5-metre) draft at high tide, but the development of Conakry's port (50 miles [80 km] south-southeast) and shifting sandbars and mangrove swamps in the Pongo Estuary greatly reduced Boffa's importance as a port.
Two security researchers exposed Google's vulnerable building management system for its Wharf 7 office.
The Port of Albany, in New York, got stimulus funds to rebuild its dock and wharf, so we told Terrence P. Hurley, who is the port's chief financial officer, that he could not run in last month's Democratic primary for the county legislature.
Above all, there are ships as far as the eye can see: tugboats, barges, shrimp boats sagging listlessly; farther out, vast oil tankers lying at anchor waiting for a ship's pilot to guide them safely into port.Every ship of consequence that comes into an American port has to be guided in by a pilot, who boards it a few miles offshore and dictates its passage into its appointed wharf.
Grand Portage, with its two wharves and numerous warehouses, became one of Britain's four main fur trading posts, along with Niagara, Detroit, and Michilimackinac.
