| ...that the
port of Valencia is the most important in Spain.
The port authority has moved over 28 million
tons in the year 2001 and 1.5 million TEUs.
Its traffic covers all sectors of the economy
and practically all kinds of goods.
...that the container era began
in Oakland in 1962, when the S.S. Elizabethport,
then the world's largest freighter, arrived
at the Port's Outer Harbor Terminal to inaugurate
containership operations by Sea-Land Service,
Inc.
To begin this new era in international shipping,
Sea-Land modified four ships and invested in
a fleet of 5,000 trailers that "detach from
their chassis to become giant shipping boxes."
The Port of Oakland, in turn, spent $600,000
to upgrade piers to accommodate the line's revolutionary
operations.
...that the port of Legaspi
in the Bicol region serves primarily as a collection
point for the products of other provinces and
islands to the east and south of Legaspi. It
is also a distribution channel for Albay products.
Cargoes that pass through the port consist of
cement, copra, coconut and other agricultural
products, bottled cargoes and fertilizers?
...that the city of Shanghai
had a such a bad reputation in certain quarters
that it gave rise to the verb "to be Shanghai-ed",
which meant to be drugged and shipped off to
sea as a sailor, a reflection of the problem
ship's captains often had when they arrived
in Shanghai in putting together enough of a
crew to set sail again?
...that with total infrastructure
investment of more than $600 million over the
past 25 years, the Port of Brisbane is a deep-water
port providing container terminals and bulk
cargo facilities for a diversified range of
commodities over 28 berths and 6,510 metres
of quayline. The port has been identified as
a major driver of economic development in Queensland
and plays a significant role in promoting employment
through its contribution to overall job creation.
...that the port of Bruges-Zeebrugge
in Belgium has a very long history which dates
back to the beginning of the Christian calendar?
On the spot where the port of Zeebrugge is now
located, there was little more than a beach
and a row of dunes some 100 years ago. But the
port's history goes back to origins of the city
of Bruges - from the creation of the first navigable
channels to the rise of the florishing economic
and cultural center in the late Middle Ages
to the decline from the 15th century onwards.
...that in 1874 B.C., Egypt
was the first country to dig a man-made canal
across its lands to link the Mediterranean Sea
to the Red Sea via the Nile River and its branches?
That Canal was abandoned and reopened several
times then later named the Suez Canal. It was
opened for international navigation on November
17, 1869.
...that the Port of San Francisco's
history reaches back to the early years of California
statehood? With the Gold Rush attracting hundreds
of ships to San Francisco Bay from around the
world, a State Commission was created in 1863
to improve the City's harbor. As the City moved
into the 20th century, the Port grew in leaps
and bounds. The waterfront became an industrial
area of finger piers, railroad terminals, and
warehouses. With the outbreak of World War II,
San Francisco became a military logistics center;
troops, equipment and supplies left the Port
in support of the Pacific theater. The City's
shipbuilding and ship repair industries flourished.
In the 1950s, San Francisco continued to be
the West Coast's premier cargo port.
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