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People and coasts

Several great cities used to have important docks. These developed in the days when most trade with other countries was by sea. Now there are important container ports.


A port where container ships unload and load. The ships carry their goods in large, box-shaped metal containers and the port has special cranes to load and unload these. You can sometimes see these containers on lorries being driven to or from the ports.

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