Like its South-East Asian counterpart, Dubai is now also trying to turn itself into a regional transport hub.
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Storms River was once the transport hub of a booming 18th-century lumber industry.
For Kisangani to reclaim its former glory as a transport hub, parts of the river would have to be dredged.
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It will form part of a larger transport hub which will comprise management and welfare facilities and servicing support units.
The last chapter will be of the remains of Babylon as an American and Polish transport hub during the Iraq war.
EU, is so keen to see Slovenia join is its potential usefulness as a strategic spoke in Central Europe's new transport hub.
Believing that the ground below the twin towers is as sacred as the space above, some even say that the new transport hub must be moved northwards.
Across the Suzhou Creek in the Hongkou District, the riverfront turns into the North Bund, which has been redeveloped as a transport hub centred on a passenger cruise terminal.
There are about a dozen cargo and passenger planes at what workers call the "graveyard", an overgrown field at the far north end of the runway at the airport, which is a major transport hub for West Africa, AP reports.
In Windsor, the racecourse will be used as a public transport hub from where spectators can board shuttle buses for the events at Eton Dorney rowing Lake, but locals fear ticket-holders will cut costs by using their own transport and parking cars in residential areas.
Finally, Athens has set out to expand their local production potential by offering exploration bids off their Western coast, as well as entering into discussions with Cyprus in a bid to set up Greece as a transport hub for natural gas from the Leviathan natural gas field.
Babak Zanjani has more money in the bank than the entire GDP of this tiny former Soviet republic, but in the past few years he has been investing in businesses here, and today he is in town for the inauguration of his latest venture - a smart new transport hub for the capital, Dushanbe.
Kandahar is the main transport and logistics hub for this turbulent region.
That prosperity is largely based on its ability to stay one step ahead of its neighbours as a communications, transport and financial hub.
But the strategy of turning Dubai into an international hub for transport, tourism and international business would be threatened if America decided that Dubai is also a hub for terrorism.
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Dubai wants to become a leading international hub for transport of various sorts: it has already achieved this in aviation, and is working at it in shipping.
And the rivalry doesn't stop at sea - Malaysia is also looking to promote itself as a hub for air transport.
Thawra Street is a hub for the capital's ubiquitous public-transport minibuses.
In Sydney, Australia's commercial hub, frustration over the dearth of investment in the congested transport system helped deliver swathes of suburban seats in former Labor strongholds to the conservative Liberal-National coalition.
The coalition government is currently consulting on the future of aviation policy and Ms Villiers was speaking at the Transport Times conference, on Wednesday, looking at A New Strategy for UK Aviation - The Case for New Hub Capacity.
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