Located on a peninsula in Kanagawa Prefecture in central Japan, Miura City developed as a military port on the Pacific and a harbour providing shelter to passing ships.
One place considered a potential investment opportunity is Vladivostok, Russia's largest port city, seen as a commercial backwater for decades.
But after a fine run to the final in the Dutch port city, Soderling claimed his fifth ATP Tour title as Zouzhny was forced to quit with a wrist injury.
Some 200 international cruise lines now visit the port, and three more are adding the city as a stop in 2013.
It bears witness to the important role of the city in the growth of the British Empire as a major port for the mass movement of people, e.g. slaves and emigrants from northern Europe to America.
The ship will remain in the city state's downtown Port Rashid facility to serve as a tourist magnet alongside a proposed maritime museum and an expanding cruise ship terminal complex, officials said Monday.
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As a city in its own right, Townsville thrives on trade - the official port for much of the surrounding agriculture and mining.
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Mr Chirac told Mr Perrin he had spent several happy months as a young man in New Orleans, looking into the economics of the city's port.
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As recently as May citizens of the financial and port city of Karachi thronged the streets and attacked a government electricity office because of long and frequent outages.
The explosion on Sunday evening targeted members of the minority sect leaving a mosque in this port city, and underlined the increasing threat faced by Shiites as Sunni militant groups target them in ever-bolder attacks.
The snow prompted city officials in the port city of Valdez to close the three local schools on Thursday and Friday, as a precaution against collapses.
He is an Alawite the same Muslim sect as the Assad family and Syria's ruling regime from a middle-class family in the port city of Tartous.
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