NOUN
- a port open on equal terms to all commercial vessels
- an area adjoining a port where goods that are intended for reshipment can be received and stored without payment of duties
How To Use free port In A Sentence
- Unlike the neighboring U.S. Virgin Islands - St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John - Tortola and Virgin Gorda are not duty-free ports.
- I checked out the free portion of the site and found that comic books are being provided for in adobe formats, supplying rich and colorful views of comics, that can be zoomed in and out of, and paging that allows flipping quickly. Archive 2008-04-01
- Free port is to point to do not belong to custom administer haven or harbour area.
- The base has been made a free port and special economic zone.
- I'm afraid, sir, Tortuga is the only free port left in these waters.
- Free ports are areas that, while inside the geographic boundaries of a country, are considered to be outside it for customs purposes. Times, Sunday Times
- Harbor very Plaine, and to be sure we went into a small Harbor a mile to leeward of the Fort. we wear tolde att Antegua that thiss was a free Port for Eight years, which we found to be so. [109] the governor gave us Liberty to come in, and the next day sent out hands to bring us in to the right harbor, under Commd. of the forte. the next day our cable brake and she drave ashore; but not being willing to loose her, gott her off with one Anchor and cable off, and one end of a cable ashore, and so gott her into the Soft woose, [110] because wee would not be att the charge of Negro's and to pumpe her. thus the good shipp Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents
- Both prospered in the colonial period as free ports.
- But there is no such thing as free porterage. Times, Sunday Times
- This turnover releases significant amounts of the iron-free portion of heme, porphyrin, which is subsequently degraded.
