On my arrival, I repeated what I had written; namely, the idea of getting New Orleans, or at least to advise the Spaniards to make it a free port.
It has lately been made a free port; and I now wish the affair of Bayonne may be again taken up.
Before Singapore was made a free port, it was the principal mart for the country trade of the East Indies.
The establishment of this as a free port, most seriously affects the commerce of Batavia; it has drawn from it a most valuable native trade.
As the Zollverein policy became accepted throughout Germany, previous privileges were gradually lessened, and since 1888 only Hamburg remains a free port.
Ostend was made a free port, and large bonding facilities were afforded at Bruges, Brussels, Ghent and Louvain.
Marseilles was a free port in the middle ages, and so was Dunkirk when it formed part of Flanders.
In addition to this, he would have established a system of warehousing without tax for re-exportation, thus making London a free port.
The Cape of Good Hope was to be restored to the Batavian Republic, and to be used as a free port.
We are, therefore, now pressing more earnestly its establishment as a free port, and such other regulations in its favor as may invite the commerce to it.
Honfleur will, I think, certainly be made a free port; and I flatter myself will become the centre for much of our trade, and particularly that of rice.
FREE PORT, name given to a port at which ships of all nations may discharge or load cargo without payment of customs or other duties, save harbour dues.
Shortly after the establishment of Singapore, the Dutch Government proclaimed Rhio a free port.
Hong Kong is a free port, and, in my opinion, ought never to be otherwise than free.
Singapore is a free port; and vessels of all kinds and from all nations come and go, without paying one penny to Government in any shape.
DEAR SIR,--Monsieur Farrin called on me on the subject of making Honfleur a free port, and wished me to solicit it.
On the promulgation of the edict constituting Cadiz a free port, it became at once an entrepot for the produce of all nations; the goods brought to it being subjected only to a trifling charge for landing, &c.
The Czar's Government also promised that Batoum should be a free port, and left unchanged the regulations respecting the navigation of the Dardanelles and Bosporus.
At the end of June the Russian Government repudiated the clause of the Treaty of Berlin constituting Batoum a free port[212].
The events which finally brought Russia and Japan into collision arose out of the obvious need for the construction of a railway from St. Petersburg to the Pacific having its terminus on an ice-free port.
If we should be held rigidly to this, the appointment of a free portwill be of great importance to our interests.
By our treaty, I am sensible we have a right to demand but one free port in France, and that for the purpose of carrying there our own commodities only.
Besides, the right of entrepot is a perfect substitute for the right of free port.
If not mentioned in either way, it is rather an indecent proceeding, considering that this right of free port is founded in treaty.
Therefore, there should be no fear that a prosperous Canton and a developed China would be harmful to Hongkong as a free port.
The Hulutao-Jehol-Peking Line With this line I shall begin to deal with a new group of the Northeastern Railway System which will make Hulutao, the ice-free port on the Liaotung Gulf as their center and terminus.
Chinwangtao, on the coast of Chihli, between the Liaotung and Pechihli gulfs, the present ice-free port of Chihli province.
Once it was the only ice-free port in the whole of North China.
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