Sentence examples for shipping centre from inspiring English sources

As a shipping centre Nyköping has been supplanted by Oxelösund.

The city is an important European shipping centre.

Passau was an important medieval trade and shipping centre.

Although now industrialized, it remains a shipping centre for a wide agricultural region.

Lorain is now a major Midwest shipping centre handling coal, iron ore, and limestone.

The city remains an agricultural processing and shipping centre dealing primarily in grain, poultry, and livestock.

Bonners Ferry became an important timber-shipping centre in the 1920s and remains so.

The coastal range tapers off to form the Barcelona Gap near the state capital, Barcelona, a cattle- and coffee-shipping centre on the Neverí River.

The southern Pacific port of Golfito, once an important banana-shipping centre, handles little trade since the decline of banana production there.

The Ohio and Erie Canal (opened from Akron to Massillon in 1828) led to the community's early development as a major wheat-shipping centre.

It is a major jute-shipping centre, connected by road and rail with Comilla, near the eastern border with India, and Noakhali to the southeast.