Good relations between Hawaii and the United States were necessary to keep the port open to American ships.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

The container ship,Maersk Alabama, was sailing through the Gulf of Aden to the port of Mombasa,Kenya, on the east coast of Africa.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Thompson said the port of San Francisco was big enough to hold all the navies of the world.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

General Winfield Scott had captured the port of Vera Cruz and was ready to attack Mexico City.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

In the fourteenth century, ships that arrived in Venice,Italy, from areas infected with bubonic plague had to stay outside port for forty days.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Under the proposed agreement, fishing boats would be directed to a landing port specially equipped for inspections.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

That way,port officials could deny entry to a fishing boat that has committed offenses in others waters.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

American ships that blocked the port of Vera Cruz permitted the Mexican dictator to land there.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

He rode to the port of Dover. He crossed the English Channel on a ship.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

Doing this before arrival would give port officials time to try to identify suspicious activities.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

A navigator is responsible for guiding a ship safely from one port to another.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Second,Russia was extending the Chinese Eastern Railway to the Russian port city of Vladivostok.

VOA: special.2011.03.03

A young man who had the money to buy the supplies and the necessary tickets to travel to Alaska usually landed at the little port of Skagway.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

And they were offered transportation to any United States port they named.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

And he would be forced to close the Port of Charleston.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

"My house was destroyed, as well as my school, so my mom didn't want me to stay in Port-au-Prince."

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Israeli naval commandos stormed onto a ship loaded with weapons near Cyprus and took it to Israel's southern port of Ashdod.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

El Paso Port Director William Molaski says officers are trying to identify people who might be infected with the swine flu virus.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

In the countryside, an hour's drive from Port-au-Prince, many people in Mirebalais have returned to their daily routine.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

U.S.officials are setting up as many as throughout Port-au-Prince to feed more than 200,000 people per day.

VOA: standard.2010.01.26

So they hurried to build a new Chesapeake & Ohio Canal from the old port of Georgetown in Washington to Pittsburgh in western Pennsylvania.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

The option of arming the private ships to protect against hijacking is complicated by common port laws which ban private firearms within port waters.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

"My first reaction was, I have to get to Port-au-Prince because my daughter is there."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

But road travel from the sites remains difficult. The general says there are more than 1,400 flights on a waiting list to land in Port-au-Prince.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21