Ports from Brownsville to Port Arthur were shut down.
Hundreds of them could be found in ports from Stonington to Portland, Me.
Surely the £760m bid for Forth Ports from infrastructure fund Arcus is done and dusted?
The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway serves ports from Boston to Key West, Fla.
Goods were coming into British ports from around the growing empire too, and competition was rife.
Tobruk, Ras Lanuf, Zueitina and other ports from which oil is exported have been afflicted too.
MI5 (the MI stands for military intelligence) was created in October 1909 to help defend British ports from espionage.
In the 19th century, European powers strong-armed long-term leases on ports from a weak Chinese government.
It is a 3,500-mile 3,500-milechain of ports from Alaska's Aleutian Islands to Bellingham, in Washington state.
There are also smaller, less developed ports from Pemba in the north to Inhambane in the south.
A "partial risk guarantee" from the World Bank protects investors in Peru's roads, airports and ports from breaches of contract.
