In each port-of-call on the race circuit, the Foundation will mount a Water Pavilion dedicated to raising public awareness about water preservation.

UNESCO: Race for Water victim of ocean pollution

In each port-of-call on the race circuit, MOAF will mount a pavilion that will be a platform dedicated to raising public awareness about water conservation.

UNESCO: THEMES

Its first international port-of-call will be India on 11 October.

BBC: Scotland

After waiting out the bad weather, the Plastiki took off from its unexpected first port-of-call in Australia early Friday morning with hopes to reach Sydney in the next two days.

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He added that the island of Cozumel, on Mexico's Caribbean coast, is the world's top cruise-ship port of call and that Mexico saw six million cruise-ship visitors in 2010.

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Down on the bustling banks of the Niger in the port of Mopti - the Venice of Mali as the faded tourist posters call it - I find stacks of square white slabs flecked with grey.

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When a shipping company--foreign or domestic--needs to change a route, a vessel or a port of call, it has to ask the harbour association six weeks in advance.

ECONOMIST: Shipping in Japan

Onboard course work will be augmented with shore-based study and field activities at each port of call.

CNN: 'Scholar Ship' ready to set sail

England's Awaji Island training headquarters was the first port of call for those who had hopes of seeing Sven-Goran Eriksson achieve the ultimate success.

BBC: World Cup memory lane

With engines switched off, approximately 1, 000 pounds of nitrogen oxides emissions, 165 pounds of sulfur oxides, and 30 pounds of particulate matter are eliminated in a 24-hour port call.

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