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A free port (porto franco) or free zone (US: Foreign-Trade Zone) is a port or area with relaxed jurisdiction with respect to the country of location. Most commonly this means being free of customs or being a special customs zone with favorable customs regulations. Earlier in time some free ports enjoyed political autonomy.
Many international airports have free ports.
Free ports and Free Zones by country
World map showing location of Asia A satellite composite image of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of the continent of Eurasia, defined by subtracting the European peninsula from Eurasia. ...
Manama (Arabic: المنامة Al-Manāmah) is the capital city of Bahrain and is situated on the Persian Gulf, in the northeast of Bahrain Island. ...
Qeshm, the largest island of Iran, c. ...
Chabahar (in Persian چابهار) is an Iranian city and free port on the coast of the Sea of Oman. ...
Megane-bashi, the Eyeglasses Bridge Nagasaki listen (長崎市; -shi) is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture located at the south-western coast of Kyushu, Japan. ...
Niigata is the name of several places, times and things: Niigata City Niigata Prefecture This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Hong Kong, China Hong Kong (香港; Cantonese IPA: ; Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2; Yale: heūng góng; pinyin: Xiānggǎng; Wade-Giles: Hsiang-kang) is one of the two Special Administrative Regions of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
National motto: none Official language Chinese and Portuguese Chief Executive Edmund Ho Hau-wah Area - Total - % water Not ranked 27. ...
State motto: no State motto Capital George Town Governor Haji Abdul Rahman bin Haji Abbas Chief Minister Koh Tsu Khoon Area 1,056 km2 Population - Estimated 1,400,000 State anthem Pulau Pinang State Anthem Penang (in Malay Pulau Pinang, Jawi:بينانج) is an island on the north-west coast...
The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ...
Subic Bay is a bay on the west coast of the island of Luzon in the Philippines, about 100km northwest of Manila Bay. ...
Nakhodka is a port city in Primorsky Krai (Maritime Region) in the Far Eastern part of Russia. ...
ODESSA (German for Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen; The Organization of Former SS-Members) was an alleged Nazi fugitive network set up towards the end of World War II by a group of SS officers. ...
1819 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
1858 is a common year starting on Friday. ...
ODESSA (German for Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen; The Organization of Former SS-Members) was an alleged Nazi fugitive network set up towards the end of World War II by a group of SS officers. ...
2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Vladivostok Train Station Vladivostok (Russian: Владивосто́к listen ) is a city in Russia. ...
1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ...
Rijeka (Fiume in Italian and Hungarian, Reka in Slovene; R(ij)eka and Fiume both mean river) is the principal seaport of Croatia, located on the Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea. ...
Events February 16 - Louis XV of France attains his majority Births February 24 - John Burgoyne, British general (d. ...
(part of the European Union) - Freeport of Hamburg (Freihafen Hamburg)
- Freeport of Bremen (Freihafen Bremen)
- Freeport of Bremerhaven (Freihafen Bremerhaven)
- Freeport of Emden (Freihafen Emden)
- Freeport of Kiel (Freihafen Kiel)
- Freeport of Cuxhaven (Freihafen Cuxhaven)
- Freeport of Deggendorf (Freihafen Deggendorf)
- Freeport of Duisburg (Freihafen Duisburg)
Position of Hamburg in Germany Hamburgs central broadway Jungfernstieg at the Alster lake, between 1900 and 1914 This article is about the city in Germany. ...
Bremen lies in North Germany 50km South of the North Sea. ...
Map of Germany showing Bremerhaven Watershed of the River Weser Bremerhaven is a city in the federal state of Bremen, Germany. ...
Map of Germany showing the location of Emden Emden is a city and seaport in the northwest of Germany, on river Ems. ...
Statistics State: Schleswig-Holstein District: Independent city Area: 113. ...
Cuxhaven beach at sunset Cuxhaven is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, with about 55000 inhabitants. ...
Deggendorf is a town in Bavaria, capital of the district Deggendorf. ...
Location of Duisburg Duisburg is a German city in the western part of the Ruhr Area (Ruhrgebiet) in North Rhine-Westphalia. ...
(part of the European Union) City nickname: none Location in Denmark Area - Total - Water 526 km² xxx km² xx% Population - City (2004) - Metropolitan - Density 502,204 1,116,979 954/km2 [including water] xxx/km2 [land only] Time zone Eastern: UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 55°43 N 12°34 W Copenhagen (Danish: København) is...
(part of the European Union) Piraeus, or Peiraeus (Modern Greek: Πειραιά(ς) Pireá(s), Ancient Greek / Katharevousa: Πειραιεύς Pireéfs) is a city in the prefecture of Attica, Greece, located south of Athens. ...
Thessaloníki (Θεσσαλονίκη) is the second-largest city of Greece and is the principal, the largest city and the capital of the Greek region of Macedonia. ...
(part of the European Union) Liverpools skyline, as seen from the River Mersey. ...
The town of Prestwick is located in the central west coast of Scotland in the region of southern Ayrshire. ...
Southampton is a city and major port situated on the south coast of England. ...
Tilbury is located on the north bank of the River Thames, in the borough of Thurrock in England, at the point where the river suddenly narrows to about 800 yards/740 metres in width. ...
Location within the British Isles. ...
East Yorkshire Holderness Kingston upon Hull Beverley Boothferry Scunthorpe Glanford Great Grimsby Cleethorpes Humberside was an administrative county of England from 1974 until April 1, 1996. ...
(part of the European Union) - Free Zone of Madeira - Caniçal (Zona franca da Madeira - Caniçal)
For other uses of the word, see Madeira (disambiguation) Madeira Islands location. ...
Official language Georgian Capital Batumi Chairman of Interim Council Levan Varshalomidze Area - Total - % water 2,900 km² n/a Population - Total (1989) - Density 392,432 135. ...
A view of Batumi, circa, 1911, towards the mountains Batumi (also Batum or Batoum) is a seaside city (population: approximately 137,000) on the Black Sea coast and capital of Ajaria, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia. ...
1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) Events January 18 _ Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ...
(part of the European Union) Livorno, sometimes in English Leghorn, (population 170,000) is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy. ...
Events January 5 - The Battle of Turckeim August 10 - Building of the Royal Greenwich Observatory began November 11 - Guru Gobind Singh becomes the Tenth Guru of the Sikhs. ...
1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ...
Location within Italy Trieste ( Latin Tergeste, Slovenian and Croatian Trst, German and Friulian Triest) is a city in northeastern Italy, capital of Friuli-Venezia Giulia region and Trieste province, population 211,184 (2001). ...
Location within Italy Venice is known for its waterways and gondolas Venice (Italian Venezia), the city of canals, is the capital of the region of Veneto, population 271,663 (census estimate 2004-01-01). ...
(part of the European Union) Ringaskiddy (Irish: Rinn an Scidígh) is a village south of Cork city, in County Cork, Ireland. ...
Shannon can refer to the following: In Celtic mythology, the goddess of the river by the same name, the River Shannon A defunct Formula One constructor; see Shannon (Formula One) Four place names in Ireland: Shannon Town the name of a new town in County Clare. ...
(part of the European Union) - Free Zone of Verdon - Port de Bordeaux (Zone franche du Verdon — Port de Bordeaux)
Verdon is the name of several places in the United States: Verdon Township in Minnesota Verdon Township in Nebraska Verdon in South Dakota Verdon is also the name of a river in southern France, known for its deep canyon, see Verdon River and for great climbing. ...
City motto: Lilia sola regunt lunam undas castra leonem. ...
(part of the European Union) Riga (in Latvian language orthography Rīga), the capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast at the mouth of the Daugava River, at 56°58′ N 24°8′ E. Riga is the largest city in the Baltic States and serves as a major cultural, educational, political, financial, commercial...
Ventspils is a city in northwestern Latvia, on the coast of the Baltic Sea. ...
(part of the European Union) - Free zone of Barcelona (Zona franca de Barcelona)
- Free zone of Cádiz (Zona franca de Cádiz)
- Free zone of Vigo (Zona franca de Vigo)
- Free zone of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Zona franca de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
- (Ceuta and Melilla are not Free Ports or Free zones because they are parts of spain, but not part of the european union for customs and excises)
Barcelona within Barcelonès Population (2003) 1,582,738 Area 1004 Km2 Population density (2001) 15,764/Km2 Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia, an autonomous region in northeastern Spain (41°23′ N 2°11′ E). ...
Cádiz is a coastal city in southwestern Spain, in the region of Andalusia, and is the capital of the province of Cádiz. ...
Situation of Vigo within Galicia Vigo is the largest city of the Galicia region and Pontevedra province in northwestern Spain. ...
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is a Spanish city, the capital city of Gran Canaria one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, 210 kilometers located off the northwestern coast of Africa. ...
Ceuta is a Spanish exclave in North Africa, located on the northernmost tip of Maghreb, on the Mediterranean coast near the Straits of Gibraltar. ...
Melilla, known in Arabic as مليلة, and in Tamazight as Tamlit is a Spanish autonomous city on the coast of eastern Morocco, in North Africa. ...
(part of the European Union) Marstrand is a seaside town in the municipality of Kungälv, Sweden. ...
(16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...
Gustavia Harbor, St. ...
1785 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
(part of the European Union) - Free zone of Lappeenranta (Lappeenrannan Vapaaalue)
- Freeport of Hangon (Hangon Vapaasatama)
Lappeenranta (Villmanstrand in Swedish) is a city and municipality that resides on the shore of the lake Saimaa in South-Eastern Finland, about 30 km from the Russian border. ...
The word America has several meanings: Geographical and political Americas, the continent which is divided in: North America, Central America and South America. ...
Burlington Bay, also known as Hamilton Harbour, is a branch of Lake Ontario bounded on the northwest by the City of Burlington, on the south by the City of Hamilton, and on the east by Hamilton Beach (south of the Skyway Bridge) and Burlington Beach (north of the channel). ...
City Hall in Hamilton. ...
Colón is a sea port city on the Caribbean Sea coast of Panama. ...
- US Customs: List of U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones (http://ia.ita.doc.gov/ftzpage/letters/ftzlist.html)
Related articles Many countries have, or have had at some time, designated areas where companies are taxed very lightly or not at all to encourage development or for some other reason. ...
This article is about a tax measure. ...
Weblinks - a list of free ports in the european union (http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2002/c_050/c_05020020223en00160018.pdf) (.pdf-file; english)
- The german customs administration about freeports and free zones in germany (http://www.zoll.de/b0_zoll_und_steuern/a0_zoelle/j1_freizonen_und_freilager/) (german)
- US Customs: About Foreign-Trade Zones (http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/cargo_control/ftz/about_ftz.xml)
- US Customs: U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board (http://ia.ita.doc.gov/ftzpage/index.html)
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