How to Use free port in a Sentence

free port

noun

• Today, free ports are a crucial cog in the global art trade.
  — Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Longreads, 29 May 2018
• Even Dietl says the free port part of the Delaware Freeport saves little money.
  — Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Longreads, 29 May 2018
• 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
• The Dunkirk duty-free port store is aimed at consumers looking to buy in bulk and expectations are high that volumes will be strong due to the substantial savings compared to U.K. local prices.
  — Kevin Rozario, Forbes, 24 Oct. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• For speculators flipping Picassos, free ports specializing in art and luxury items offer an attractive deal.
  — Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Longreads, 29 May 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024