Described as a medieval new town founded in 1235, it was also a thriving sea port.
There is no other locale in the country that has more transportation infrastructure available to sea port facilities.
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The small, Soviet-designed AN-24 plane was carrying 45 people from the Black Sea port of Odessa, according to emergency officials.
They include a new sea port at Hambantota, in the president's constituency in the south, an oil-storage facility, a new airport, a coal-fired power plant and an expressway.
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So the Maritime Self-Defense Force deployed seven destroyers to the Inland Sea port of Kure on a broiling Saturday in July for a cruise and public relations offensive.
With tears in his eyes, he embraced Russia's defence minister, Igor Sergeyev to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the liberation of the Black Sea port of Sebastopol from the Germans.
The ships -- the the Filchenkov and Kunikov -- had been closely watched by U.S. intelligence for the last several weeks while docked in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol.
Reports suggest the weapons were destined for the Red Sea port of Al-Mukha, and that their intended recipients were the Houthis - a Shia insurgent group based in northern Yemen.
He says Constanta is the gateway at the end of a giant "blue motorway" stretching more than 1, 500 miles from the North Sea port of Rotterdam via waterways in Holland, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Serbia.
Already, most of the shipments through Murmansk's Barents Sea port to the north or Kandalaksha's White Sea port to the south is made up of metals and minerals, and the bulk is set to grow.
She was never on her knees, never humiliated by the Soviet collapse, even though she was born in Sebastopol a Black Sea port redolent with past Russian glory when it was part of the Soviet empire, and went to school there when it had become part of Ukraine.
In Russia's Black Sea oil port of Novorossisk, for example, a local British businessman, Clive Rumens, wanted to set up a small factory producing a simple additive that makes crude oil pour more easily.
There are several ways to reduce your communications costs while at sea and in port.
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India, in turn, is pushing into the South China Sea, and seeking port facilities in Vietnam.
Coffee spread to Europe by two routes - from the Ottoman Empire, and by sea from the original coffee port of Mocha.
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The economic crisis has played a part but frequent checks, in port and at sea, have also deterred owners from manning their yachts.
Last year, however, a consortium led by BP opened a huge pipeline between Baku, on the Caspian Sea, and the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
His realization was that the solution wouldn't come from improved astronomical readings, as many thinkers believed, but from an extremely accurate clock that could tell the time of the home port while at sea.
While the crew enjoyed the port town at sea level, the strongest man on earth preferred to admire Barcelona from above, choosing the hilltop of Montjuic, which overlooks the city, for its magnificent views.
The man was sighted in the sea about 20 miles from the port of Rosslare as rescue helicopters were heading for the scene.
"The fluctuation of LNG volumes into the port continues to emphasise the need to find alternative deep sea trades, " said Alan Doc, chief executive of the port.
On 29 May, Russia began construction of what is planned to be the largest commercial port on the Baltic Sea at Ust-Luga, adjacent to the Russian-Estonian border.
At the weekend, the defence minister, Ahmad Mukhtar, announced that China would be taking over Gwadar, a deep-water Pakistani port on the Arabian Sea, turning it into a naval base.
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But the north has the pipeline, refinery and the export terminal at Port Sudan on the Red Sea.
Ethiopia now uses Djibouti, a port farther down the Red Sea coast.
Most oilfields are in the landlocked south, which needs northern pipelines to Port Sudan on the Red Sea to export the stuff.
Whether it is through the micro-cell site when we are at sea, or the local carrier in port, I have no problem accessing local GSM networks on T-Mobile.
At the time, the building was the tallest in the area and the light stayed lit until all the fishermen out at sea that day came safely back to port.
The agreement was also part of a treaty signed with Belgium to compensate for land lost through the deepening of the Westerschelde, a stretch of water connecting the port of Antwerp to the sea.
There was a port here then, but the sea has since receded, and in its place are swamps, roses, dust, and vineyards.
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