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Port Arthur massacre (1894) The Port Arthur massacre purportedly occurred during the First Sino-Japanese War on 21 November 1894, when advanced elements of the First Division of the Japanese Second Army under command of the one-eyed General Yamaji Motoharu (1841-1897) killed Chinese serviceman and civilians, in the Chinese coastal city of LĂĽshunkou, historically known in the West as Port Arthur.
Port Arthur, Ontario Port Arthur, Ontario, was a city in Northern Ontario which amalgamated with Fort William, Ontario and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the City of Thunder Bay in January 1970. Port Arthur was the district seat of Thunder Bay District.
Port Arthur, Tasmania Port Arthur is a small town and former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia. Port Arthur is one of Australia's most significant heritage areas and officially Tasmania's top tourist attraction.
Port Authority of Allegheny County Port Authority of Allegheny County (also known as the Port Authority, PAAC, or sometimes by its former nickname PAT) is the second-largest public transit agency in Pennsylvania and the 11th-largest in the United States The County-owned, state-funded agency is based in Pittsburgh] and is overseen by a CEO and a ten-member board of directors, who report to the County Executive.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey The Port of New York Authority, or, as it calls itself the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) is a bi-state port district, established in 1921 through an interstate compact, that runs most of the regional transportation infrastructure, including the bridges, tunnels, airports, and seaports, within the New York–New Jersey Port District. This 1,500 mile² (3,900 km²) District is defined as a circle with a 25-mile (40-km) radius centered on the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.
Port Authority Police Department The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, or PAPD, is one of the largest police departments in the United States with approximately 1,600 officers, sergeants, lieutenants, and detectives as of 2006. It is run by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a bi-state agency running the bridges, tunnels, airports, and seaports along the New York - New Jersey border.
Port Blair Port Blair (Hindi: पोर्ट ब्लेयर) (coordinates: ) is the largest town and a municipal council in Andamans district in the Andaman Islands and the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands union territory of India. It lies on the east coast of South Andaman Island and is the main entry point to the islands.
Port Blair mean time Port Blair mean time was the time zone of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India in the Bay of Bengal. The time zone was set up during the early 1800s remained in effect until January 1, 1906 as the Indian Standard Time became the official time of India.
Port Botany, New South Wales Port Botany is a suburb in south-eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 12km south east of the Sydney central business district and is in the local government area of the City of Randwick.
Port City Roosters The Port City Roosters were a minor league baseball team based in Wilmington, North Carolina. The team, which played in the Southern League, was the Double-A affiliate of the Seattle Mariners major-league club.
Port Clarence Port Clarence is a small community now within the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and ceremonial county of County Durham, England. It is situated on the north bank of the River Tees, and hosts the northern end of the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge.
Port Clements Elementary School Port Clements Elementary is a public elementary school in Port Clements, British Columbia part of School District 50 Haida Gwaii/Queen Charlotte. It's staff consists of only 3 teachers (Nadine Whittle, grades k-1, Ritu Mars, grades 2-4 and Chris Bellamy, grades 5-7).
Port Colborne Harbour Railway The Port Colborne Harbour Railway , formed in 1997, serves various industries in the Port Colborne area and along the New Welland Canal. The principal commodities transported are wheat, scrap, woodpulp, bauxite, and lumber.
Port Colborne Recreationists The Port Colborne Recreationists were a junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey Association, based in Port Colborne, Ontario. The Recreationists played at the Junior B level through the 1940s, with the exception of one season.
Port Colborne, Ontario Port Colborne (2001 population 18,450) is a city on Lake Erie, at the southern end of the Welland Canal, in the Niagara Region of southern Ontario, Canada near Niagara Falls. The city is named after Sir John Colborne, a British war hero and the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada at the time of the opening of the First Welland Canal.
Port Conway, Virginia Port Conway is an unincorporated town on the Rappahannock River in King George County, Virginia, USA. James Madison (March 16, 1751-June 28, 1836), the fourth President of the United States, was born in Port Conway.
Port de Grave, Newfoundland and Labrador Port de Grave is a peninsula located on Conception Bay in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The Port de Grave peninsula consists of the communities of Bareneed, Black Duck Pond, Otterbury, Ship Cove, Blow Me Down, Hibb's Cove, Pick Eyes, and Hussey's Cove with a total population of approximately 800.
Port Deposit Bridge The Port Deposit Bridge (also known as the Susquehanna River Bridge or Rock Run Toll Bridge) was the earliest bridge crossing of the Susquehanna River below Columbia, Pennsylvania, providing the first reliable link between the northern and southern United States. The bridge was also the fifth and last of Theodore Burr's Susquehanna crossings.
Port Dickson Festivals The Port Dickson Festivals are an annual collaboration between 3 communities, The Kite Flying Association of Malaysia, The Lion Dancers of Malaysia and the Balloon Federation of Malaysia. This festival is held annually in mid-December.
Port Discovery Port Discovery is an Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland, children's museum that opened in 1998. Port Discovery's permanent exhibits were designed by Walt Disney Imagineering and is 80,000 square feet (7,000 m²), making it the third largest children's museum in the United States.
Port Disney Port Disney was the name of an unbuilt Disney property that would have been located in Long Beach, California. It would have included a version of the DisneySea theme park, 400-boat marina, cruise ship port, a specialty retail and entertainment area, and hotel accommodations.
Port Douglas, British Columbia Port Douglas, British Columbia is a remote community at the head of Harrison Lake, which is the head of river navigation from the Strait of Georgia. Port Douglas, often called simply Douglas, was the second major settlement of any size on the British Columbia mainland (after Yale during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush.
Port Douglas, Queensland Port Douglas is town in Far North Queensland, Australia, approximately 80km north of Cairns. Its permanent population was 1287 residents in 2001 (2001 Australian Census)ABS 2001 Census 2001 Community Profile of Port Douglas.
Port Dufferin, Nova Scotia Port Dufferin located at 44°54'57"N, 62°23'13"W is a community on the eastern shore of the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia , 103.85 kilometers east of Halifax on Nova Scotia Route 7 on Marine Drive .
Port expander A port expander is computer hardware that allows more than one device to connect to a single port on a computer. The Commodore VIC-20 used a port expander to allow more than one cartridge to be connected to the single cartridge port.
Port El Kantaoui Port El Kantaoui is a tourist complex 10 kilometres north of Sousse in central Tunisia. Built in 1979 specifically as a tourist centre, it boasts a modern marina equipped for over 300 boats and several golf courses, as well and a full array of other sporting activities from water skiing to paragliding.
Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape Port Elizabeth (English: Port Elizabeth; Xhosa: Ibhayi) is a city in South Africa, situated in the Eastern Cape Province, at . The city, often shortened to "PE", and nicknamed "The Friendly City" or "The Windy City", is located on Algoa Bay, and is one of the major seaports in South Africa.
Port Essington Port Essington is an inlet and historic site located on the Cobourg Peninsula in the Garig Gunak Barlu National Park in Australia's Northern Territory. It was the site of an early attempt at British settlement, but now exists only as a remote series of ruins.
Port Essington, British Columbia Port Essington was a cannery town on the south bank of the Skeena River estuary in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, between Prince Rupert and Terrace, and at the confluence of the Skeena and Ecstall Rivers. It was founded in 1871 by Robert Cunningham and Thomas Hankin (father of the interpreter Constance Cox) and was for a time the largest settlement in the region.
Port Eynon Port Eynon is the name of a village and a community in the city and county of Swansea, south Wales. The village is located in a remote south western corner of the Gower Peninsula which is a designated area of outstanding natural beauty.
Port Franks, Ontario Port Franks is a small village located along Kings Highway 21 near Pinery Provincial Park, about 8 km north of Thedford, Ontario. Archaelogical evidence suggests that human habitation and use of this site date back thousands of years, and that locally obtained flint was manufactured at the so-called 'flint chipping beds' in the vicinity long before the period of European contact with First Nations peoples in the Great Lakes Basin.
Port Gamble, Washington Port Gamble is a bay on the western shore of the Kitsap Peninsula in western Washington, lying near the entrance to Hood Canal. The unincorporated communities of Port Gamble and Little Boston, part of Kitsap County, lie on either side of the mouth of this bay.
Port Giles, South Australia Port Giles () is the newest port on Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, between Stansbury and Edithburgh. Port Giles is not a town, but simply a large jetty equipped for bulk handling of grain, operated by Flinders Ports, and a similarly large grain storage facility operated by AusBulk.
Port Glasgow Athletic F.C. Port Glasgow Athletic were a senior Scottish association football club formed in 1880 as Broadfield FC, changing their name in 1881. Originally based at Devol Farm, Port Glasgow the club moved to a new ground called Clune Park in the town's Glasgow Road.
Port Glasgow railway station Port Glasgow railway station is on the Inverclyde Line, serving the town of Port Glasgow, Scotland. It is located in the town centre with the main entrance at the junction of Princes Street and John Wood Street.
Port Hacking Port Hacking () is an Australian estuary, located about 24 km south of Sydney, and fed by the Hacking River and several smaller creeks, including Bundeena Creek and The Basin. It is a ria, a river basin which has become submerged by the sea.
Port Hamilton Port Hamilton or Komundo (Hangul: 거문도 [Geomundo], Hanja: 巨文島 or 巨門島) is a small group of islands of the southern coast of Korea, located approximately at . There are three principal islands, the two larger ones, Sodo (서도 [Seodo], 西島) and Sunhodo (동도 [Dongdo], 東島) forming an excellent harbour with the smaller island in the centre.
Port Hills The Port Hills are a range of hills running approximately east-west, between the port of Lyttelton and the city of Christchurch in Canterbury, New Zealand. The Port Hills are the northern rim of an ancient volcanic cone, one of two from which Banks Peninsula (Horomaka) was formed.
Port Hood, Nova Scotia Port Hood () is a quiet seaside village on the west coast of Cape Breton Island and the shire town of Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Local residents are predominantly English-speaking Roman Catholics, the population core having Highland Scottish ancestry; MacDonalds/MacDonnells mostly.
Port Hope Predators The Port Hope Predators are a Tier II Junior "A" ice hockey team from Port Hope, Ontario, Canada. They are a part of the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League but also used to be a part of the Metro Junior A Hockey League as the Port Hope Buzzards.
Port Hope Simpson, Newfoundland and Labrador Port Hope Simpson, population 535, is a small town located on the southeastern Labrador coast, 215 kilometres from the Quebec/Labrador border. With the completion of the Trans-Labrador Highway in the region, the area has since had an increase in tourist activity.
Port Hueneme, California Port Hueneme (pronounced "port why-NEE-mee",) is a small harbor city in Ventura County, California near Oxnard. The name derives from the Spanish spelling of the Chumash wene me, meaning "resting-place".
Port Huron Statement The Port Huron Statement is the manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), written primarily by Tom Hayden, then the Field Secretary of SDS, and completed on June 15, 1962 at an SDS convention in Port Huron, Michigan.
Port Chester, New York Port Chester is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population is 27,867, according to the 2000 census, however, a July 1, 2002 Census estimate puts the village's population at 27,949.
Port Chicago disaster The Port Chicago disaster was a deadly explosion that took place on July 17 1944 at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California, in the United States. Ammunition being loaded aboard cargo vessels bound for the war in the Pacific exploded, killing 320 sailors and civilians, and injuring more than 400 others.
Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial at the Concord Naval Weapons Station near Concord, California recognizes the critical role Port Chicago played in World War II by serving as the main facility for the Pacific Theater. It also commemorates the Port Chicago explosion that occurred at the naval magazine which resulted in the largest domestic loss of life during World War II.
Port Chicago, California Port Chicago was a town on the southern banks of Suisun Bay, in Contra Costa County, California. It is famous as the site of a devastating explosion at its Naval Munitions Depot during World War II and the consequent events, at the time called a mutiny.
Port in a Storm "Port in a Storm" is the twelfth episode of the second season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by David Simon from a story by David Simon & Ed Burns and was directed by Robert F.
Port Jefferson, New York The Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson is located in the town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2000 census, the village population was 7,837.
Port Jervis (Metro-North station) The Port Jervis Metro-North station serves the residents of that city and surrounding communities. It is the western terminus of the Port Jervis Line, with trains taking New York City-bound passengers there via Hoboken and Secaucus Junction.
Port Jervis Line The Metro-North Railroad Port Jervis Line is a single-track commuter rail line running from Suffern, New York, north, west and southwest to Port Jervis. At Suffern, the line continues south into New Jersey at New Jersey Transit's Main Line.
Port Joli, Nova Scotia Port Joli is a small village located along the Nova Scotia Highway 103 on the southwest coast of Queens County, Nova Scotia. It is about 20 miles from Liverpool, Nova Scotia, the nearest significant town, and 120 miles from Halifax, Nova Scotia, the provincial capital.
Port knocking In computing, port knocking is a method of externally opening ports on a firewall by generating a connection attempt on a set of prespecified closed ports. Once a correct sequence of connection attempts is received the firewall rules are dynamically modified to allow the host which sent the connection attempts to connect over specified port(s).
Port Kembla, New South Wales Port Kembla is a seaport near Wollongong, in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. It is essentially an industrial complex (one of the largest in Australia), but also covers a small harbour foreshore nature reserve and a small town with shops.
Port Kirwan, Newfoundland and Labrador Port Kirwan is a small incorporated fishing community located on the southern shore of the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada. The community so named after a Reverend Mother Mary Bernard Kirwan, foundress of Presentation Sisters of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1853.
Port Klang Port Klang (Malay: Pelabuhan Klang) is the main port of Malaysia, located in the district of Klang in the state of Selangor. It serves the Klang Valley, including the federal capital Kuala Lumpur and federal administrative capital Putrajaya.
Port Laoise Port Laoise (older spelling Port Laoighise; former name Maryborough), is the county town of County Laois (formerly Queen's County) in the midlands of the Republic of Ireland. The name is Irish for "Fort of Laois", and properly pronounced ; however, a partially anglicised pronunciation as "Port Laois" (say 'Port Leash') is common.
Port Leon, Florida Port Leon, Florida was a river port town located in southern Wakulla County, Florida established in the 1820s. Port Leon is classified as an "extinct city" by the State Library and Archives of Florida and only remnants can be found today.
Port Leopold, Prince Leopold Island and Elwin Bay Port Leopold () is the site of a former Hudson's Bay Company trading post at the far northeast corner of Somerset Island in Nunavut, Canada. It is also the place where the English explorer James Clark Ross wintered in 1848 during his search for the missing Franklin expedition.
Port Liberté, Jersey City Port Liberté is a neighborhood in Jersey City that used to be one of the many ports on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. It was filled with industrial buildings until 1980 when developers began to transform the neighborhood into an upscale residential complex.
Port Liner The Port Liner (ポートアイランド線 Pōto-airando-sen) is urban automated guideway transit system in Kobe, Japan. Operated by Kobe New Transit, it was the world's first urban AGT when opened in February 1981.
Port Lockroy Port Lockroy (located at ) is a natural harbour on the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica. After its discovery in 1903 by the French Antarctic Expedition it was used for whaling and British military operations (Operation Tabarin) during World War II and then continued to operate as a British research station until 1962.
Port Louis, Falkland Islands Port Louis is a settlement on northeastern East Falkland. It was established by Louis de Bougainville in 1764 as the first French settlement on the islands, but was then transferred to Spain in 1767 and renamed Port Soledad (cf East Falkland is known as Isla Soledad in Spanish).
Port mirroring Port mirroring is used on a network switch to send a copy of all network packets seen on one switch port to a network monitoring connection on another switch port. This is commonly used for network applicances that require monitoring of network traffic, such as an intrusion-detection system.
Port Macquarie Presbyterian Church The Port Macquarie Presbyterian Church is located in the Australian coastal town of Port Macquarie, New South Wales. It is part of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, the major Presbyterian denomination in Australia.
Port Madison Port Madison, sometimes called Port Madison Bay, is a deep water bay located on the west shore of Puget Sound in western Washington. It is bounded on the north by Indianola, on the west by Suquamish, and on the south by Bainbridge Island.
Port Mann Bridge The Port Mann Bridge is a steel tied arch bridge that spans the Fraser River connecting Coquitlam to Surrey in British Columbia near Vancouver. The bridge consists of three spans with an orthotropic deck carrying five lanes of Trans-Canada Highway traffic, with approach spans of three steel plate girders and concrete deck.
Port Mathurin The village of Port Mathurin serves as the capital of the island of Rodrigues, a dependency of Mauritius. It lies on the north coast of the Indian-Ocean island and functions as the administrative, judicial and economic centre of Rodrigues.
Port McNeill, British Columbia Port McNeill is a small community on the north-eastern coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia (south-western Canada) with a population of 2,821 (2001). Public services offered include an RCMP dispatchment, Ambulance Service, Volunteer Fire Department and the District Hospital for all of the North Island.
Port Melbourne railway line, Melbourne The Port Melbourne railway line was a suburban railway in Melbourne, Australia. It was the first significant railway in Australia and was opened by the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company in 1854 to carry passengers arriving in Victoria at Station Pier, and to alleviate the high costs of shipping goods via small vessels up the Yarra River to Melbourne.
Port Melbourne railway station, Melbourne Port Melbourne railway station was located on the first significant railway in Australia, The station was opened in 1854 to carry passengers arriving at Station Pier to Flinders Street Station. The station and railway line was closed in 1987 and replaced later by Melbourne tram route 109.
Port Melbourne Sharks The Port Melbourne Sharks are an Australian football (soccer) club from Port Melbourne, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The club was formed in 1968 by Greek migrants, and currently play in the Victorian State League Division 1.
Port Mercer Canal House The Port Mercer Canal House is located at 4378 Quakerbridge Road in Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey. It is situated along the Delaware and Raritan Canal near the border of West Windsor Township and Princeton Township, New Jersey.
Port Moody Station Museum The Port Moody Station Museum is owned and operated by the Port Moody Heritage Society and is part of their effort to promote increased awareness and knowledge of Port Moody, British Columbia's heritage and history.
Port Moody—Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam Port Moody—Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam (formerly known as Port Moody—Coquitlam) only was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004.
Port Morris, New Jersey Port Morris is an historic community in Roxbury Township, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. Despite the promise of its name, Port Morris is in the hills of the Skylands Region, many miles away from any lake, river or other navigable body of water.
Port Mouton, Nova Scotia Port Mouton is a small village along Nova Scotia Highway 103 on the southwest coast of Queens County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is about ten miles from Liverpool, Nova Scotia, the nearest significant town, and 100 miles from the provincial capital of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Port Neill, South Australia Port Neill is a small coastal town on the eastern side of the Eyre Peninsula, in South Australia about 3km off the Lincoln Highway between the major towns of Whyalla and Port Lincoln. It is 576 km by road from Adelaide.
Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal is the name for the port facility in Newark Bay that serves as the principal container ship facility for goods entering and leaving the metropolitan region of New York City and the northeastern quadrant of North America. It consists of two components (Port Newark and the Elizabeth Marine Terminal, sometimes called "Port Elizabeth") which exist side-by-side and are run conjointly by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Port Noarlunga, South Australia Port Noarlunga is a suburb in the City of Onkaparinga, South Australia. It is a small sea-side suburb, population 2,549 (2001 Census), about 35km to the south of Adelaide and was originally created as a sea port.
Port Norris, New Jersey Port Norris is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Commercial Township, in Cumberland County, New Jersey. It is part of the Vineland-Milleville- Bridgeton Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area for statistical purposes.
Port of Belgrade Port of Belgrade (Serbian: Лука Београд/Luka Beograd) is a cargo port on Danube in Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in the very center of Belgrade near Pančevo bridge ("Pančevački most").
Port of Boston The Port of Boston is a major seaport located in Boston Harbor and adjacent to the City of Boston. It is the largest port in Massachusetts as well as being one of the principal ports on the east coast of the United States.
Port of call Typically, a port of call is a city or town in a country being visited by sea; if it is the first a vessel visits in that country, the vessel and all passengers and crew must clear in with local authorities there.
Port of Casablanca The Port of Casablanca () refers to the collective facilities and terminals that conduct maritime trade handling functions in Casablanca's harbours and which handle Casablanca's shipping. The port is located at near Hassan II Mosque.
Port of Coos Bay The Port of Coos Bay is a port of the Pacific coast of the United States, located in Coos Bay near the city of Coos Bay, Oregon. It is the largest deep-draft coastal harbor between San Francisco Bay and Puget Sound, and is Oregon's second busiest maritime commerce center after the Port of Portland.
Port of Dubuque The Port of Dubuque (also known as the Ice Harbor, 4th Street Peninsula, or the Riverfront) is the section of downtown Dubuque, Iowa that lies immediately adjacent to the Mississippi River. The area was among the first areas settled in what would become the City of Dubuque, and the State of Iowa.
Port of Erdemir The Port of Erdemir is a major port in the western Black Sea, located in Zonguldak Province, Turkey, about 25km from the city of Zonguldak at Lat:41° 15' N, Long:35° 28' E. It includes commercial operations at Erdemir Port, operated by Erdemir, A.
Port of Gdańsk The Port of Gdańsk is a seaport located on the southern coast of Gdańsk Bay, extending along Vistula estuary (Martwa Wisła), Port Channel and Kashubia Canal. It is one of the largest seaports on the Baltic Sea.
Port of Hong Kong The port of Hong Kong, located by the South China Sea, is dominated by trade in containerised manufactured products, and to a lesser extent raw materials and passengers. A major deepwater seaport strategically located on the Far East trade routes and in the geographical centre of the Asia-Pacific Basin, it has been a key factor in the development and ongoing prosperity of Hong Kong.
Port of Houston The Port of Houston is the port of Houston, Texas, the fourth-largest city in the United States. The Port is a 25-mile-long complex of diversified public and private facilities located just a few hours' sailing time from the Gulf of Mexico.
Port of Lake Charles The Port of Lake Charles is an industrial port based in the city of Lake Charles. It provides many jobs of the city It is the sixteenth largest seaport in the United States, 4th largest liner service seaport in the U.
Port of Liverpool The Port of Liverpool is the name for the enclosed dock system that runs from Herculaneum Dock to Seaforth Dock, on the east side of the River Mersey, combined with the facilities built around the Great Float on the west side of the river.
Port of Montréal The Port of Montreal, located in Canada's second largest metropolis, is one of the busiest on the North American continent, and the largest inland port on Earth. It has been judged one of the safest, and one of the most advanced on the planet, with most of the movement done solely by computers and machines.
Port of New Orleans The Port of New Orleans is a port located in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the 5th largest port in the United States based on volume of cargo handled, second-largest in the state after the Port of South Louisiana, and 12th largest in the U.
Port of Oakland The Port of Oakland was the first major port on the Pacific Coast of the United States to build terminals for container ships. It is now the fourth busiest container port in the United States; behind Long Beach, Los Angeles, and Newark.
Port of Palm Beach The Port of Palm Beach is located in Riviera Beach, Florida, in Palm Beach County, at coordinates . The Port is an independent taxing district, with a five-member board of commissioners elected at large by voters within the district.
Port of Philadelphia The Port of Philadelphia, within the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is strategically located at the center of the Northeast Corridor. It handles a large amount of containerized traffic, making it the second largest port (by volume) in North America.
Port of Portland (Maine) The Port of Portland is the largest tonnage seaport in New England as well as a major seaport along the east coast of the United States. It is also the second largest oil port on the East Coast and the largest foreign inbound transit tonnage port in the United States.
Port of Rosario The Port of Rosario is an inland port and a major goods-shipping center of Argentina, located in the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe, on the right-hand (western) shore of the Paraná River, about 550 km upstream from the Atlantic Ocean, at .

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