Sentence examples for premier port from inspiring English sources

Koper, too, has a pretty, medieval heart, and it has retained its charm despite having developed into Slovenia's premier port.

For example, although Heathrow Airport handles only about a million tons of freight per year, in value of throughput it ranks as Britain's premier port.

But South Korea's ambitious expansion of Pusan, its premier port, is based on expanding transshipments to 44percentt of its cargo total by 2011.

A premier port city in the pre-container era, New York was where the great liners still docked and the great trains still roared into the terminals.

With the creation of Pakistan in 1947, Karāchi became not only the capital and premier port of the new country but also a centre for industry, business, and administration.

Efficient movement of cargo across the docks and into the economy is essential if New York is to remain the premier port on the East Coast, government officials and private consultants agree.

Being perfectly perched in one of the country's premier ports is ideal, but here's the magnum opus of this B&B: Carrots.

But some wonder whether this boon for developers and businesses will hamper the operations of New England's premier commercial port, which in 1999, according to port officials, transported $10 billion in goods through its newly dredged waterways.

Grimsby is the country's premier fishing port and a leading centre for food processing.

It was Scotland's premier fishing port from the introduction of steam trawling until the rise of the North Sea oil industry.

Despite the reconstruction, the city's status as the premier shipping port was lost to Houston a few years after the disaster.