Sentence examples for port opening from inspiring English sources

A rebel spokesman in Misurata said Wednesday that NATO had delivered two airstrikes that pushed the Qaddafi forces away from the port, opening it for vital supply ships.

"But Colonia has not escaped modernisation of its port, opening of new hotels and real estate development on its waterfront".

A dummy stylet was then inserted into the port opening.

In brief, a trial is initiated by breaking a light beam at the sampling port opening.

This year's shipping season began with the arrival of Fednav's M.V. Federal Rhine on July 11, the earliest port opening since international shipping started here in 1931.

Therefore the scavenging influenced by the port opening is researched and the results are validated by experiment.

The port opened in 1968, and work on the accompanying industrial estate continued into the 1970s.

Stuttgart also has a port (opened 1958) and has become an important business-service centre.

The port opens to the sea through Chesapeake Bay and the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and is a major automobile-shipping point.

The city's port opened in 1168 and served for about 500 years as a rice shipment centre and port of call for trade with China.

In January a deepwater port opened in Mariel on Cuba's northern coast, a prime spot to handle traffic with the United States should the drawbridge come down.