The seaport also provides supplies and services to more than half of all offshore drilling operations.
Here it joins the Richardson Highway as it winds north from the seaport of Valdez.
By 1830, the seaport village of Hyannis contained four schoolhouses, a few stores and a tavern.
Most of its roads are now blocked and the seaport has been severely damaged.
The Ninjas then attacked the railway that links Brazzaville with Congo's only sizeable seaport, Pointe Noire.
It just got harder to trade goods out of the Portland seaport on the West Coast.
"We had the team inspect the airport, the seaport, the regional lab that tests for the influenza, " he said.
Today, Somalia's transitional government announced plans to open a second front against the Islamic Courts Union in the seaport of Kismayu.
And in Libya, the rebels had a whole city, Benghazi, with airport and seaport as a base to receive arms and organize.
Dubai gets its revenues from indirect taxes, such as low import tariffs and reasonable fees from its growing airport and seaport traffic.
It has the nations busiest seaport and, nearby, a glistening high-rise waterfront.
"That makes it more difficult to argue that a bankrupt company is cheap, " says Ron Bringewatt, director of research at Seaport Group, a distressed-debt investment firm.
Stockholm is now transforming part of its Royal Seaport, a run-down industrial area, into a live-work space that will contain 30, 000 offices and 10, 000 residences.
The hurricane warning is in effect for parts of the Pacific coast of Mexico, from the seaport city of Salina Cruz to the resort town of Acapulco.
The bustling seaport of Freemantle lies 19km south-west of Perth where the Swan River meets the Indian Ocean and its historic heritage is clear for all to see.
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Just as jazz was born in the seaport of New Orleans from a blend of African and European sounds, so New York humour was shaped by talented immigrants.
It developed the groundbreaking Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston, which some credit with reviving Boston's inner city, and also owns Chicago's Water Tower Place and New York's South Street Seaport.
This new picture can also be witnessed at Mogadishu's seaport -- Somalia's key national asset -- where creaking cranes lift goods from the commercial ships and boats lining the harbor.
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The worst damage in New York came from a 13-foot storm surge that filled Battery Park City and streets from the South Street Seaport throughout the Lower East Side.
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Ted Weisberg, president of Seaport Securities, said that Madoff "was an innovator" who, for years, offered investors a guaranteed return and that he continued to attract investors in that way.
He was born there, in the Adriatic seaport of Rijeka (now in Croatia), and took Italian nationality when the town was annexed by Mussolini's Italy in 1924 and renamed Fiume.
But it's heavily traveled by commercial trucks hauling goods between Atlanta and Savannah's busy seaport, and is often used by travelers as a route to Interstate 95 along the Eastern Seaboard.
On the agenda for the first round are such old chestnuts as the Palestinian airport and seaport in Gaza and the Palestinians' right of safe passage from Gaza to the West Bank.
Neighboring Dominican Republic agreed to open up one of its airports and a seaport to help deal with the influx of aid, according to the Dominican ambassador to the United States, Roberto B.
The smaller museum now presents exhibitions and public programs at Lincoln Square, a gallery space near Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and collaborates with other institutions, including the South Street Seaport Museum.
Now I'm riding in cabs from appointment to appointment all over Manhattan, begging the operators at information to connect me with computer repair houses--especially because I know there's no chance of getting help in the little Oregon seaport village.
The International Ship and Port Security (ISPS) code put in place that year by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the U.N. body responsible for the safety and security of shipping, had a profoundly positive effect on seaport security.
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Then the white barrels, the wooded hills on the far bank of the river, and beyond the hills the other side of Connecticut, the trip to the whaling ship at Mystic Seaport, somewhere out there Cape Cod, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa.
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