Ports and Harbors

PortAventura World, located in Spain, is significantly larger than Pleasurewood Hills in the UK. PortAventura spans around 132 acres and features multiple theme parks, hotels, and attractions, while Pleasurewood Hills covers approximately 50 acres. Thus, PortAventura is about 2.6 times larger than Pleasurewood Hills in terms of area.

Beihai is a major commercial port in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is a traffic juncture in south Guangxi and an important foreign trade gateway for Guangxi. The port has bagging facilities with an annual bagging capacity of 200,000 tons. Along with the development of Beibu Bay's Wei 6-1-1 oil field within the city boundary, petroleum will become a major cargo. Dalian, an important water-rail intermodal transport juncture, is the largest comprehensive commercial port in northeastern China engaged in passenger and multi-cargo transport. Foreign investment in manufacturing facilities is creating a demand for containerised cargo handling facilities which are being progressively built. Fangcheng is the largest coastal port in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, handling import and export cargoes to and from provinces in southwestern China. It is being engaged in bulk trade, expansion into containers is likely to be on a feeder basis. Fuzhou is a river estuary port situated 25 km from the mouth of the Minjiang River. The main harbour is located at Mawei 8 km from the city. There are shipping lines trading to most Chinese major ports. The port also has general and container liner services to Japan and Hong Kong and tramp trading to Asian ports, USA, Australia, and Eurpoe. Guangzhou Port is one of China's major ports, however, its development is constrained by extensive shallow areas and the heavy siltation. Plan is in place for dredging the channel down to - 12.5m by 2005 and to - 15m at the final stage. With Guaugdong Province together with Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Yunnan Guizhou and Sichuan Province as its hinterland and the plan for deepening of the approach channel, it has good potential, for further development. Lianyungang is a foreign trade port engaging in sea-land cargo intermodal transport. It is the shortest gateway to the sea for the 11 provinces and regions in eastern China. The Lianyungang Economic and Technical Development Zone is mid way between the city and the port. The construction of the zone is now basically completed, which will boost up the cargo throughput in the port. Nantong is a river estuary port of medium size. Cargo transshipment, is undertaken for the provinces and cities along the Changjiang River and its tributaries, shipping lines link the port with Japan, Korea, Australia, Europe, Russia and Africa. A direct shipping service has been set up to Europe. Ningbo, the largest commercial sea port in Zhejiang Province, is one of the shipping junctures linking ports in northern china with those in southern China. It caters for Ningbo's economic and coastal industrial development, serves areas in Zhejinag Province and along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi railroad, and handles large volumes of bulk cargo transshipment for Shanghai Economic Area and places along the middle and lower reaches of the Changjiang River. Qingdao is the largest commercial port in Shandong Province, well sheltered, ice free and silt free. A high technology Industrial Park and an Economic and Technical Development Zone have been set up near the port, the increase in container trade is expected. Coal from Shanxi Province is exported through the port. Quanzhou, known as "Silk Road on the sea" in the old days, is a major commercial port and is the third most important port in Fujian Province after Xiamen and Fuzhou. It is a gateway to the sea for areas along the Jiujiang River and the Luoyang River and a cargo transshipment port for areas around the port. Located in the southern most part of Hainan Island. It undertakes the seaborne passenger and cargo transport to and from the southeastern and southern areas of the island. Sanya has shipping routs to all the major ports in China. Passenger and cargo liner services operate to Hong Kong. Telecommunications facilities in the city are very modern, connecting to more than 900 major Chinese cities and 159 countries and regions in the world. Shanghai is the largest port in China. Being the centre of China's coastwise traffic, the Changjiang River Traffic, and ocean shipping and also being a water - rail intermodal transport juncture, it is a comprehensive and multi-propose commercial port and one of China's main foreign trade ports, however, access to the port is restricted by its limited depth. Even with dredging, there may be difficult in accommodating 6000 TEU ships. Shantou is a small but an important commercial port in the eastern coastal area of Guangdong Province and a transshipment point for cargoes to and from eastern Guangdong, southern Jiangxi and southwestern Fujian. The port has international shipping lines to more than 40 ports in over 10 countries and regions in Asia, Africa and Europe. Container terminals are being developed to serve the rapidly developing economy in the eastern Guangdong region, and offer an alternative to the congestion and cost disadvantage of land transport. (The materials are acquired from www.infomarine.gr which have been edited and rearranged, please go to the site for more details.)

Transport in Egypt is centered in Cairo and largely

the largest container port in the world is Jiangsu Province

It should be Durban or Dar Se salam sea port

seapan Kirby

at moorings on docks

FOB is "free on board" items. i.e. the types of items which are not charged. example: free stuff for marketing, for dealers, for regular customers, etc. FOB pricing is accumulating the cost of the items which have been given for free, and trying to adjust this cost into the base product cost so as to even out the manufacturer's cost

Yes Plymouth UK, is a reasonably major port. As the name suggests it is based at the mouth of the River Plym, but it is also at the mouth of the Tamar, Lynher and TAvy Rivers all flowing into Plymouth Sound a large (sort of) natural harbour, protected from the elements by the breakwater. It is also home to the Naval port at Devonport Dockyard, notable for Trident nuclear submarines and the Brittany Ferries taking passengers to Roscoff in Brittany, France and Santander in Northern Spain.

St. John's is the capital and largest city and port of Antigua and Barbuda.

Osaka i think

Yes and no. London is located on the river Thames which has an estuary that leads out into the English Channel however London does not have access to the sea directly (i.e. London does not sit exactly on a coastline).

Chittagong sea port

Sea buoy to Sea buoy is 313 nautical miles.

Stena Line goes from two places in Dublin. Dún Laoghaire, which is a port on south of the city is about 14 miles or 23 kilometres from Dublin Airport. There is also Dublin Port in the city, which is about 8 miles or 13 kilometres from Dublin Airport.

Rotterdam is in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Yuzhne is a port city in Ukraine. It is on the Black Sea.

weather currents would effect tugboats because the water would reel it in and the boat would not be able to move.

about 15 miles

New Orleans, Louisiana, is a French port that was founded in 1718. The port city in question was established under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (Feb. 23, 1680-March 7, 1767) of Montreal, New France. It was selected because of its high-ground access to the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River.

The patrol of waterways is essential for maintaining maritime security and ensuring safe navigation in and out of harbors. This practice helps prevent unauthorized vessels from entering restricted areas, protecting port facilities and national interests. Additionally, it aids in enforcing maritime laws and regulations, contributing to the overall safety of shipping operations. Effective patrols can deter illegal activities, such as smuggling and piracy, thereby promoting a secure maritime environment.