Sentence examples for network of ports from inspiring English sources

Hutchison Whampoa, a buccaneering, privately owned Hong Kong conglomerate, has long had a global network of ports.

The modern-day version envisages a network of ports, railways, tunnels and other infrastructure spanning 60 countries.

It also includes a maritime trade network of ports and depots that span the Indian Ocean, culminating in east Africa, an important frontier of China's expanding interests.

The more countries weigh in, the more difficult that network of ports will be to exploit, and the more frequently illegal vessels will be left to bob on the waves with their unmarketable catch.

The capacity of a modern container ship is large relative to the export volumes produced by smaller countries, and there are substantial economies of scope in offering transport services over a network of ports.

The storm cut off power to thousands of gas stations across the state, but perhaps more critically, it caused widespread damage to refineries and a network of ports and terminals that deliver gas to the pumps.

The Silk Road concept aims to "connect more than 50 countries via the sea and build a network of port cities along the Silk Road".30 The port facility that China has developed in Pakistan in Gwadar connecting Beijing with Gulf Countries and Arabian Sea enables China to transport oil through this facility and into China via land.31.31

A network of river ports, container ports, airports and highways has grown at a staggering rate (see map).Much of the delta today resembles Taiwan a generation ago, says Arthur Kroeber, an editor of the China Economic Quarterly, a research publication.

In 1988 Malta Freeport was established to develop the Marsaxlokk port into a regional transshipment centre, linking it with a network of Mediterranean and Black Sea ports.

These eighteen models start from a quite simple free port model of the Antiquity (Piraeus) to end with three complex contemporary examples of multi-zonal free ports (Mauritius, Dubaï and Tanger-Med) and an even more complex prospective model of a network of free ports.

Public buildings, railroads, and schools were constructed, and Caracas was modernized to function as the centre of the new network of telegraph, ports, and roads.