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port¹

  (pôrt, pōrt)

1. (Abbr. Pt.)
   1. A place on a waterway with facilities for loading and unloading ships.
   2. A city or town on a waterway with such facilities.
   3. The waterfront district of a city.
2. A place along a coast that gives ships and boats protection from storms and rough water; a harbor.
3. A port of entry.

[Middle English, from Old English, from Latin portus.]

The left-hand side of a ship or aircraft facing forward. Also called larboard.

Of, relating to, or on the port.

To turn (a craft) or make a shift to the port side: port the helm; ported sharply to avoid a shoal.

[Probably from port side, from PORT¹.]

1. Nautical.
   1. An opening in a ship's side providing access to the interior.
   2. A porthole.
   3. Archaic. A cover for a porthole.
2. An opening, as in a cylinder or valve face, for the passage of steam or fluid.
3. A hole in an armored vehicle or a fortified structure for viewing or for firing weapons.
4. 1. An entrance to or exit from a data network.
   2. A connection point for a peripheral device.
5. Scots. A gateway or portal, as to a town.

Computer Science. To modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform.

[Middle English, gate, porthole, from Old French porte, gate, from Latin porta.]

To hold or carry (a weapon) diagonally across the body, with the muzzle or blade near the left shoulder.

1. The position of a rifle or other weapon when ported.
2. The manner in which one carries oneself; bearing.

[French porter, to carry, from Old French, from Latin portāre. N., Middle English porte, from Old French port, from porter, to carry.]

noun

Behavior through which one reveals one's personality: address, air, bearing, demeanor, manner, mien, presence, style. See be, style/good style/bad style.

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Portekizce

Left, from the naval term. Originally larboard the term was changed in the late 18th Century to keep from confusing it with starboard, which means right. The port side of a ship will be illuminated with a red light.

Seaport, a painting by Claude Lorrain, 1638

The Port of Wellington at night. Due to limited capacity, many ports operate twenty-four hours a day.

Chennai Port, India

Valparaíso, Chile, the main port in Chile

Kwai Tsing Container Terminals in Hong Kong is one of the busiest ports in the world

Port of Singapore is also one of the busiest port in the world

The Friedrichshafen lake port gate, marked with the standard light signals (red and green)

Port of Kobe at twilight

Port of Miami

Port Miou near Cassis

Colón seaport city as seen from the ocean.

A port is a facility for receiving ships and transferring cargo. They are usually situated at the edge of an ocean, sea, river, or lake. Ports often have cargo-handling equipment such as cranes (operated by longshoremen) and forklifts for use in loading/unloading of ships, which may be provided by private interests or public bodies. Often, canneries or other processing facilities will be located very close by. Harbour pilots , barges and tugboats are often used to safely maneuver large ships in tight quarters as they approach and leave the docks. Ports which handle international traffic will have customs facilities.

The terms "port" and "seaport" are used for ports that handle ocean-going vessels, and "river port" is used for facilities that handle river traffic, such as barges and other "shallow draft" vessels. Some ports on a lake, river, or canal have access to a sea or ocean; they are sometimes called "inland ports". A "fishing port" is a type of port or harbor facility particularly suitable for landing and distributing fish. A "dry port" is a term sometimes used to describe a yard used to place containers or conventional bulk cargo, usually connected to a seaport by rail or road.

Cargo containers allow for efficient transport and distribution by eliminating the need for smaller packages to be loaded individually at each transportation point, and allowing the shipping unit to be sealed for its entire journey. Standard containers can just as easily be loaded on a ship, train, truck, or airplane, greatly simplifying intermodal transfers. Cargo often arrives by train and truck to be consolidated at a port and loaded onto a large container ship for international transport. At the destination port, it is distributed by ground transport once again.

Ports and shipping containers are a vital part of modern Just in Time inventory management strategies.

Ports sometimes fall out of use. Rye, East Sussex, England was an important port in the Middle Ages, but the coastline changed and it is now 2 miles from the sea. Also in England London, on the River Thames, and Manchester, on the Manchester Ship Canal, were once important international ports, but are no longer so.

Ports and the Economy

According to the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA), U.S. ports and waterways handle more than 2 billion tons of domestic and import/export cargo annually. By 2020, the total volume of cargo shipped by water is expected to be double that of 2000 volumes. American ports play a vital role in handling international cargo; they are responsible for moving over 99 percent of the country's overseas cargo.

Ports handle a wide variety of goods that are critical to the global economy, including petroleum, grain, steel and containerized goods. The automobile industry relies on the ability of ports to deliver their products. Reports from individual ports indicate that approximately 4.6 million automobilies (imports and exports) passed through American ports in 2006.

As more American businesses engage in international trade, ports will continue to grow. Small businesses, which the U.S. Small Business Association says are the engine of America's financial growth, account for 97 percent of companies that that export. American workers producing for export earned 15 percent higher wages and received 11 percent higher benefits than employees in non-exporting companies. According to the Small Business Association, 24 million small businesses account for 99.7 percent of all employers, and they are engaging in international trade in record numbers.

In addition to handling goods from all over the world, ports also play a key role in creating jobs and boosting the economy. For every $1 billion in exports, about 15,000 port jobs are created. The figure swells to 30,000-45,000 when taking into account jobs to support the new products and personnel (such as new construction, restaurants, etc.)

A five-day work stoppage would have a nationwide economic impact of nearly $4.7 billion, including a loss of 15,100 jobs, according to Dr. John Martin, president of Martin Associates, a business consulting service. Dr. Martin, who holds a doctorate in economics from George Washington University, is widely regarded as a leader in port economic impact studies.

According to an August 2007 report from Dr. Martin [1], American ports employed nearly 8.4 million people either directly or indirectly. Of this total, 1.4 million were employed in providing goods and services to ports (such as longshore, stevedore and security personnel). The remaining 7 million were employed in import- and export-related activities (such as transportation, warehousing and distribution]. Port activities were also responsible for bringing in $102.8 billion in total federal, state and local taxes in 2006.

For summary of port-sector econonic impacts study statistics, performed by Martin Associates, Lancaster, Pa., August 2007, click on [2]

Major ports

See also: World's busiest port and List of seaports

• Port of Antwerp
• Port of Ashdod
• Port of Baltimore
• Port of Bilbao
• Port of Boston
• Port of Busan
• Port of Callao
• Port Canaveral
• Port of Casablanca
• Port of Charleston
• Port of Chennai
• Port of Chicago
• Port of Cork
• Port of Colon
• Port of Göteborg/Gothenburg
• Port of Chiba
• Port of Constanţa
• Port of Dakar
• Port of Djibouti
• Port of Duluth
• Port of Dubai
• Port of Eilat
• Port of Erdemir
• Port Everglades
• Port of Felixstowe
• Port of Gawadar
• Port of Gordy
• Port of Guangzhou
• Port of Haifa
• Port of Halifax
• Port of Hamburg
• Port of Hong Kong
• Port of Houston
• Port of Incheon
• Port of Jeddah
• Port of Kaohsiung
• Port of Karachi
• Port of Kelang (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
• Port of Kobe
• Port of Kuantan
• Port of La Crosse
• Port of Liverpool
• Port of Long Beach
• Port of Longview, Washington
• Port of London
• Port of Los Angeles
• Port of Mangalore
• Port of Manila
• Port of Miami
• Port of Mobile
• Port of Montréal
• Port of Milwaukee
• Port of Mumbai
• Port of Nagoya
• Port of New York/New Jersey
• Port of New Orleans
• Nhava Sheva (Near Mumbai, India)
• Port of Oakland
• Port of Osaka
• Port of Pittsburgh
• Port of Philadelphia
• Port of Piraeus
• Port of Portland (Oregon)
• Port of Prince Rupert
• Port of Rotterdam
• Port of St. Augustine, the oldest port in the U.S.
• Port of San Diego
• Port of Santos
• Port of Savannah
• Port of Seattle/Port of Tacoma
• Port of Shanghai
• Port of Shenzhen
• Port of Singapore
• Port of South Louisiana
• Port of Tampa
• Port of Tokyo
• Port of Toronto
• Port of Valparaiso
• Port of Vancouver
• Port of Vigo
• Port of Yokohama

Major Ports

See also

Planned ports

• Punta Colonet, Baja California
• Strait of Canso, Nova Scotia

Water port topics

• Harbour
• Marina - port for recreational boating
• Ship transport
• Transport
• Fishing
• Bandar (Persian word for "port" or "haven")
• Home Port Doctrine (United States)

Other types of ports

• Airport
• Spaceport

Companies

• Hutchison Port Holdings
• Dubai Ports World
• Port of Portland
• South African Port Operations
• see Port operator

Support to seafarers

• International Christian Maritime Association (Christian port chaplaincies)
• Sea rescue organisations
• International Committee on Seafarers' Welfare [3]

External links

• Port Industry Statistics, American Association of Port Authorities
• World Port Rankings 2005, by metric tons and by TEUs, American Association of Port Authorities (xls format, 26.5kb)
• World ports database at www.portvision.be
• Information on 1,613 ports in 191 countries from Noonsite.com

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - havneby

idioms:

• port of call    anløbshavn

2.
n. - bagbord
adj. - bagbords-
v. tr. - lægge roret bagbord
v. intr. - dreje til venstre

3.
n. - portvin

4.
n. - koøje

5.
v. tr. - holde geværet på skrå
n. - måden hvorpå et våben holdes

6.
n. - kuffert

Nederlands (Dutch)
port(wijn), haven, bakboord, havenstad, vliegveld, opening, in-/ uitlaatgat, patrijspoort, linksaf gaan, aanpassen van computerprogramma aan ander type computer

Français (French)
1.
n. - port, (Naut) escale

idioms:

• port of call    port d'attache

2.
n. - (Aviat, Naut) bâbord, (Mil, Naut) sabord
adj. - à bâbord, à sabord
v. tr. - tourner/changer à bâbord
v. intr. - tourner/changer à bâbord

3.
n. - porto (vin)

4.
n. - hublot

5.
v. tr. - porter une arme près du corps en diagonale
n. - port d'une arme en diagonale, port (de tête)

6.
n. - valise

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Hafen

idioms:

• port of call    Anlaufhafen

2.
n. - Backbord
adj. - backbord, Backbord...
v. - nach Backbord drehen

3.
n. - Portwein

4.
n. - Öffnung

5.
v. - nach Backbord drehen
n. - Portwein, Öffnung, Bullauge, Hafen, Backbord

6.
n. - Aktentasche

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - λιμάνι, λιμένας, αριστερή πλευρά σκάφους ή αεροσκάφους, μπουκαπόρτα, (κρασί) πορτό, οίνος Πορτογαλίας, (Η/Υ) πύλη, θύρα, σύνδεση εισόδου/εξόδου, (μτφ.) καταφύγιο
v. - κρατώ (όπλο κλπ.) διαγώνια και αριστερά

idioms:

• port of call    (ναυτ.) λιμάνι προσέγγισης

Italiano (Italian)
porto, babordo, portare a tracolla

idioms:

• port of call    scalo, porto intermedio

Português (Portuguese)
n. - porto (m), vinho do porto (m), porte (m)
v. - aportar, portar

idioms:

• port of call    escala

Русский (Russian)
порт, портвейн, левый борт, нести

idioms:

• port of call    порт захода, пристанище

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - puerto

idioms:

• port of call    puerto de escala o de arribada

2.
n. - babor
adj. - a babor
v. tr. - virar a babor
v. intr. - virar a babor

3.
n. - vino de Oporto

4.
n. - ojo de buey, ventanilla de avión

5.
v. tr. - portar un arma en forma diagonal al cuerpo
n. - porte

6.
n. - valija, maleta

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - hamn, hamnstad, babord, (last)port, portvin
v. - lägga (roder) (sjö.), gå i färdigställning m gevär (mil.)

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
1. 港, 机场, 航空站, 港市, 口岸, 避风港, 避难场所

idioms:

• port of call    停靠港

2. 左舷, 左舷的, 转向左, 转舵向左

3. 舷窗, 枪眼, 炮眼, 舱口, 汽门, 风门

4. 舷窗, 枪眼, 炮眼, 舱口, 汽门, 风门

5. 持, 握, 双手斜持, 姿势, 姿态, 意义, 涵义, 斜持枪姿势

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 舷窗, 槍眼, 炮眼, 艙口, 汽門, 風門

2.
n. - 港, 機場, 航空站, 港市, 口岸, 避風港, 避難場所

idioms:

• port of call    停靠港

3.
v. tr. - 持, 握, 雙手斜持
n. - 姿勢, 姿態, 意義, 涵義, 斜持槍姿勢

4.
n. - 左舷
adj. - 左舷的
v. tr. - 轉向左
v. intr. - 轉舵向左

5.
n. - 舷窗, 槍眼, 炮眼, 艙口, 汽門, 風門

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 항구 , 무역항, 항구도시

2.
n. - 좌현, 좌축
adj. - 좌현의
v. tr. - 진로를 왼쪽으로 잡다
v. intr. - 이물을 왼쪽으로 돌게 키를 잡다

3.
n. - 포트와인

4.
n. - (군함의) 포문, (상선의) 하역구

5.
v. tr. - 앞에 총을 하다
n. - 태도, 거동

6.
n. - 여행가방

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 港, 港町, 荷役口, 舷窓, 砲門, 左舷, 態度, 様子, ポルト, ポートワイン
v. - 控え銃にする, 左舷に向ける
adj. - 左舷の

idioms:

• port of call    寄港地

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مرفأ, ميناء, ثغر (فعل) يحمل, يياسر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮נמל, עיר-נמל, כניסה, חוף-מבטחים, שער בחומה, נמל-תעופה, שקע לחיבור ציוד היקפי למחשב‬
n. - ‮צלע שמאל של אוניה או מטוס‬
adj. - ‮של צד שמאל בוניה או בטוס‬
v. tr. - ‮הפנה (הספינה) שמאלה, העביר תוכנה ממערכת מחשב אחת לאחרת‬
v. intr. - ‮פנתה שמאלה (ספינה)‬
n. - ‮יין חזק, מתוק, אדום כהה (לעתים חום או לבן), חריף, פורטוגלי, יין פורט‬
n. - ‮אשנב, פתח הטענה (באוניה), חור-ירי, פתח בגליל למעבר אוויר, מים וכו', החלק המרכזי המורם של מתג לסוסים‬
v. tr. - ‮נשא נשק על גופו ב"הצלב"‬
n. - ‮אחיזה של רובה ב"הצלב"‬
n. - ‮מזוודה או תיק-נסיעות‬

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