How to Use free port in a Sentence

free port

noun
  • The second season kicked off with a big set piece on a cargo ship in Red Hook’s free port.
    — ArsTechnica, 13 May 2026
  • There are export processing zones, enterprise zones, and free ports.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Ninety-six per cent of the population lives on the west coast, which has milder weather, ample fish stocks, and year-round ice-free ports.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Even Dietl says the free port part of the Delaware Freeport saves little money.
    — Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Longreads, 29 May 2018
  • Arms and gunpowder that might have been impossible to obtain through official channels could be purchased through this Dutch free port.
    — R. Grant Gilmore Iii, The Conversation, 30 June 2026
  • The best option is radical free trade that can transform all of Britain into a free port like Hong Kong or Singapore.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
  • On August 2nd Liz Truss, the trade secretary, set up a free ports advisory panel.
    — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
  • In a plot line from the latest season of Billions, Bobby Axelrod hides fake versions of his art in a free port to dodge taxes, while the real things hang in his apartment.
    — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Our largest sales usually come from duty-free port shops in cruise line destinations, specifically Cozumel (an island about 52 miles from Cancun).
    — Daniela Dib Argüelles, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2020
  • For speculators flipping Picassos, free ports specializing in art and luxury items offer an attractive deal.
    — Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Longreads, 29 May 2018
  • Congress actually passed a bill in 1932 making these buildings a free port, which enabled importers to bring goods in duty free and store them on the premises — a commercial masterstroke.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
  • China still operates a relatively closed capital account, while Hong Kong and Macau are free ports with their own currencies and no capital controls.
    — Natasha Khan, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2018
  • Murmansk, a region that features Russia’s only ice-free port with open ocean access, has lost about half its population in the past three decades as people head for southern climes and better opportunities.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Sep. 2021
  • That’s hard to miss here on the Kola Peninsula, where Murmansk is Russia’s only ice-free port with open-ocean access, and people in military uniform abound in the streets.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The movie portrays levels of secrecy and conspiracy far beyond imagination, staging battles in a closed Soviet atomic city and an extra-legal international free port filled with the art and antiquities of billionaires.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Gay’s farm is twenty-five kilometres northeast of Geneva, which hosts many United Nations agencies, the World Trade Organization, the country’s most infamous free port, and one of the world’s largest banking and commodity-trading sectors.
    — Jessi Jezewska Stevens, New Yorker, 8 June 2026

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