For container shipping:
Along the east coast: Boston, MA; New York; Baltimore, MD; Norfolk, VA; Charleston, SC; Jacksonville, FL; Port Everglades / Miami, FL are the most frequented ports.
Along the west coast: Seattle, WA; Portland, OR; Oakland, CA; Long Beach / Los Angeles, CA are the most frequented ports.
To ship from inland states you would have to ship by rail. Most rail locations are in major cities (Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Columbus, Memphis, St Louis, etc)
Gary Indiana on Lake Michigan and Evanston on the Ohio River are two large Indiana ports.
Key ports, with regard to shipping, means essential ports that are necessary in order for shipping to successfully take place.
Cotton-shipping through mexican ports
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It is near manufacturing and mining centers, has good deep-water ports, and easy access to the St. Lawrence Seaway and the other major Great Lakes.
It is near manufacturing and mining centers, has good deep-water ports, and easy access to the St. Lawrence Seaway and the other major Great Lakes.
Major east coast shipping ports are NY/NJ, Baltimore, Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah, Miami
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in bulk tonnage Immingham
They had natural ports.
That depends on where you are travelling FROM. In the marjority Scotland has international airports, rail networks that link across the whole of the UK, Large ports for shipping and a road network again accessible from across the UK