Sentences with phrase «transit point»

Recent years appear to underscore how the country has quickly become a major transit point for drug traffickers.

Panama's proximity to Colombia has made it a major transit point for Colombian criminal groups, both on land and water.

Through the 1940s, Garland was a major transit point in shipping, especially of onions, because it lies at the intersection of two rail lines.

At high levels of access to public transport stops (≥ 59.7 transit points per km2), health clinics / services (≥ 18.8 destinations in residential buffers) and crowdedness (~ 2 standard deviations above average), participants living alone were significantly less likely to report any depressive symptoms than their counterparts.

He was one of several high - level Colombian criminals hiding out there, and it's suspected his relocation there was part of an effort by his criminal group to expand into Argentina, which has both a large domestic drug market and is the fifth - largest transit point for drugs bound to Europe and Asia, according to the UN.

This data product contains the location and categorization of public transit points such as bus stops, railway stations, tram stops etc..

It functioned as an important transit point for car bombs and other weapons flowing into Baghdad.

By the 1930s, the building was the world's second - busiest transit point, bowing only to Charing Cross Station in London.

The recently renovated Sheremetyevo Airport is the hub of Russia's national carrier Aeroflot providing the ideal transit point for international, regional and domestic travellers.

Sports equipment and musical instruments are subject to the same size and weight restrictions as other forms of cabin baggage and applicable transit point restrictions will apply if any.

The international airport is on the outskirts of town and the harbor in the city is a major aquatic transit point, so most Belize visitors at least pass through here, but for most that's all they do.

The core of the argument is a disagreement over the issue of private car traffic in the city's streets, with the city hesitant to reduce road space for cars in favor of public transport solutions on the surface, while proponents of surface transit point out that less car traffic in the city center would create better urbanism.

Through the 1940s, Garland was a major transit point in shipping, especially of onions, because it lies at the intersection of two rail lines.

In the luxury goods world, the brand website is often more of a transit point for purchase via other venues.

Most retail websites actually function as a transit point or an extension of the brick - and - mortar store.

In recent years, Mali, Niger, Gambia and Equatorial Guinea have become destinations for younger Ghanaians for work, study and transit points.

According to the Police, Moro Sata had confessed that he gets his supplies from Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Niger and uses Ghana as a transit point to transport the ammunition to conflict areas across the sub-region.

Transit points — train stations, bus depots, busy highway intersections — are used as distribution centers during vaccination campaigns.

I thought the whole point of iBooks was that Apple was merely a transit point, not a retailer like a bookstore.

Your pet's water will be refilled at each transit point.

While many treat it primarily as a transit point, there is enough to maintain interest for a night or two, with a good hostel, pleasant riverside scenery and a pretty beach just a short bus ride away.

The city is at the axis of roads to Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and the capital Vientiane and most travellers use Pakse as a transit point and little else.

For its central location, Frankfurt is known as the «Gateway to Europe» — and travelers often only pass through, using it as a transit point to other major destination cities.

The airline is considering Narita International Airport as the transit point for its route to the US.

These routes are great if you have Colombo as an origin or destination, or if you have Colombo as the transit point for two separate tickets, but they're not so great if you're trying to get between two points on the subcontinent.

30 minutes away, you can visit Miraflores Locks, one of the transit points of the Panama Canal.

Transit points are either via Iloilo or Puerto Princesa.

This urban center of about 70,000 residents is by far the largest in a country that has many different types of tourist draws, but Belize City itself is rarely more than just a transit point for visitors.

«Unfortunately, Brazil is a source, a destination, and a transit point for men, women, and children subjected to human trafficking and slave labor,» said Carlos Henrique Haddad, a federal judge in Brazil and a member of the law faculty at UFMG.