Sentences with phrase «as a port city»

He gave the assurance that the sewer challenges facing the people of Tema would be addressed, while the central business area would be redeveloped to befit the area as a port city.

As a port city and the cruise capital of the UK, Southampton is a hub of activity and a fantastic place to live.

Did You Know: Its close proximity to the Gulf of Maine allowed Ellsworth to develop as a port city, with shipbuilding the primary industry up until the mid 1800s.

As a port city of the Amazon, Iquitos was a very important trade route for the country.

As a port city, New Orleans has long served as a departure, respite, or destination point for artists, intellectuals, merchants, and romantics.

As a port city, Bristol has historically been a center of international trade.

Known as the port city, importing gold in Kolkata becomes convenient via sea and air.

Not exact matches

Japanese port city Fukuoka has been growing its reputation as a start - up hub under the leadership of Mayor Soichiro Takashima and is now the country's designated regulatory sandbox for start - ups.

The deal would see Beijing take a firmer grip of Hong Kong's transport hub, even as the city's once world - leading port loses ground to rival ports on the mainland.

QINGDAO, China, April 28 (Reuters)- Wang Jianlin, the billionaire boss of China's Dalian Wanda Group, said on Saturday he will turn the northern port city of Qingdao into a global film production hub as he launched a sprawling studio complex in a ceremony attended by hundreds.

Central American groups, as well as the Sinaloa cartel and other Mexican groups, have previously formed arrangements with gangs in the port city of Liverpool to bring in drugs by sea, typically from Venezuela and Ecuador, according to The Times.

It is the easternmost city in Texas and serves as a deep - water port to the Gulf of Mexico.

Vancouver based, Odin Mining has the Cangrejos gold project in El Oro province, southern Ecuador, 30 km southeast of the port city of Machala which Odin Mining identified as the source of the Biron alluvial gold deposit which yielded 69,000 ounces.

Third, why does the Finance Minister want to create an independent CIDB that will focus only on «National Economic Development projects such as toll highways and bridges, high - speed rail, port and airport expansions, smart city infrastructure, national broadband infrastructure, power transmission and natural resource infrastructure?

In the poll, 35 percent marked Pyongyang as their first choice, followed by 22 percent for Nampo, a port city close to Pyongyang and which many believe could become a hub for trade with China and South Korea, North Korea's two biggest potential trade partners.

The 4,000 - passenger Norwegian Breakaway will make its debut next May with New York City serving as its home port, while the equally sized Norwegian Getaway will set sail on its maiden voyage May 2014 from Florida's PortMiami.

Where Maunsel White participated in the celebrations as a city official, it is not difficult to imagine, and certainly fits logically within the time frame that Maunsel White sauce was first concocted (which is dated by two different accounts to have been either 1849 or 1850) that the alleged traveler from Central America story perpetuated in McIlhenny family lore was actually a soldier returning through the port of New Orleans from the Mexican - American war to a festive reception in June of 1847, being honored and greeted by a prominent former military officer who was also a city commissioner.

consumption, with 72 million eaten annually in the Elbe port city, famous historically as a gateway for spices imported into Germany.

Talk about bad timing: President Obama is due in NYC today — just as news broke about his administration's decision to cut anti-terror funding for the city's mass transit system and port security.

Already tipped as favourite for the job, Edouard Philippe, mayor of the northern port city of Le Havre, has long been close to Alain Juppé, who was runner - up in the race for the Republican presidential nomination in November 2016.

«The purpose of the physical use of the kiosks is for subscribers to be able to make free domestic calls, provide USB charging ports to charge up phones and tablets, provide Internet access, and for emergency services,» said Bronx Borough President Diaz Jr. «I want to thank the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, as well as CityBridge, for listening to the issues raised by New York City residents regarding the use of these kiosks and making these positive adjustments.

As a hub for local Asian shipping and global transport, this island city - state is not just the world's busiest port, it's also at the greatest risk of invasion by non-native species.

Namely, that port cities across the world — from Shanghai to Mumbai, Tokyo to Bangkok — need to preserve as much wetland and unfragmented open space as possible.

Sutley, for her part, came to the post after a four - year stint as a deputy mayor in Los Angeles, where she also oversaw climate change and energy policy, including restraining emissions from diesel trucks at area ports as well as promoting solar energy by setting a goal of generating 10 percent of the city's electricity from the sun by 2020.

New Bedford officials have wasted no time positioning their city as the port of choice for the emerging industry.

Located on the coast, Velia and Isola Sacra were known as important port cities and trading centres.

But they point out that cholera plagues port cities in poorer countries, such as India and Bangladesh.

One of her brand's flagship lines is the Charleston Rice Bead collection, which pays homage to the port city's history and the importance rice played as a commodity in South Carolina.

Burnie is a port city on the north - west coast of Tasmania, originally settled in 1827 as Emu Bay.

The city is the financial and administrative heart of Tasmania, and also serves as the home port for both Australian and French Antarctic operations.

Most recently known as a thriving inland cloth and grain port, the medieval market town of Wakefield, became a city in 1888.

Eventually, he finds work as a clerk at the local port, finally allowing him to live with his wife Janaki (Devika Bhise), who arrives in the city with Ramanujan's overly doting mother (Arundathi Nag).

The plot is sometimes a little uneven but the style and setting of the film wins through as Hanna passes through snow covered tundra, Moroccan deserts and gritty European ports and cities.

Though he loves his wife and kids, Michel is one of those cops who is the job, even if he's transferred to the much more dangerous Marseille, the port city that functions as a gateway for the heroin trade.

In what can only be described as a particularly unique set of casting, Torun's film shuffles across the city with vignettes about a collection of individual moggies, following them around as they roam the streets, finding food, fighting, hunting, battling for attention from humans who aren't so much owners as casual caretakers, and thieving fish from markets and ports.

Situated in the centre of Tianjin, a port city of 10 million some 120 km south - east of Beijing, Wellington College International has been billed as a «clone» of its 150 - year - old parent school.

In addition to flooding infrastructure due to sea level rise, coastal cities are vulnerable to damage from storm surge, wave action, and / or inundation of their transportation infrastructure such as roadways, ports, bridges, rail, tunnels, shipyards, and navigational aids.

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The M - 87 Connector is the Hudson River, connecting commercial navigation channels such as the Erie Canal, ports, and harbors from New York City to Albany, NY.

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Challenged by deception and treachery on all sides, Gower struggles against his failing vision even as his inquiries take him from the City's labyrinthine slums to the port of Calais to the forests of Kent, where his friend Geoffrey Chaucer serves as justice of the peace.

If you live in or around Fairhope, Alabama («a dozen miles as the laughing gull would fly across the bay from the port city of Mobile») you might be lucky enough to know Sonny Brewer, the owner of the Over The Transom Bookstore in Fairhope.

The town was originally a shipping center and served as a port between the cities of Lewes and Wilmington for grain, lumber, and tanbark.

Known as the «Wall Street of the Southwest,» Galveston is a coastal resort city that proudly boasts a booming port and quaint, historic neighborhoods.

«I think it may be because we're a port city with five degree - granting institutions, as well as three universities,» he says.

It is the easternmost city in Texas and serves as a deep - water port to the Gulf of Mexico.

Located on the Atlantic Ocean with the St. John's River running through the city, Jacksonville serves as one of the largest ports on the East Coast.