It is a brave venture, for Qatar, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah are in the process of building their own, more modest ports, and if Dubai's is to prove worth its cost, it will have to attract the merchandise destined for the other states as well.
Perhaps most important, there was a celebration in a country in great need of a morale boost as Fernando González gave Chile victory over Israel in the modest Chilean port city of Coquimbo.
Homeland Security Department officials said the news reports had been overstated and called the increase in asylum requests at those ports "modest".
The contemporary importance of the town of Boston derives from its continued modest function as a port and from the presence of agricultural and cattle markets.
Currently, however, the port's modest sustainability efforts are largely focused on improvements in energy efficiency and reuse of materials and wastes by companies in the port, as well as co-firing some biomass in a coal plant.
Douglas used to have a modest barrier right around the port of entry.
The port has a modest container traffic, various ferry services, and is a port-of-call for cruise liners.
The commercial port handles only modest traffic; however, it specializes in the import of fruits, mainly from Africa.
The manufacturing foundation of Port Clinton's modest prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s began to tremble in the 1970s.
In talks with opposition figures, officials have raised the issue of its modest naval facility at the port of Tartus, Russia's last military base outside the former Soviet Union.
