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International Ports of Call

Postby Vissex » Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:45 pm

What ports exist in your nation? Are they primarily commercial or personal? How are they significant to your nation? How "busy" are your ports? How important are they in relation to the global economy or trade?

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Postby Saurisisia » Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:47 pm

Spaceports, they're mostly commercial. They are very vital to our nation, as they allow us to travel from one celestial body to another. They are extremely busy and are also extremely important to our economy.
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Postby Vorond » Sat Apr 16, 2011 8:03 pm

Well, being a peninsula, Vorond always had high interrest in seatrade. Biggest commercial harbor is Berkopol in the far east, the base of the Home-Fleet. In the west nowadays Brackburg replaced Vorograd as No.2 commercial harbor, as the river Brokna simply is not big enough to allow modern container-ships entry to the century-old harbor-city. The river though is still overflowing with smaller ships, being one of the main traderoutes of the Free Territory.
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Postby Virabia » Sat Apr 16, 2011 8:12 pm

We mostly use airports
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Postby Fatatatutti » Sat Apr 16, 2011 8:25 pm

We have around 50 trillion USD in annual imports and exports, most of which moves by sea. We have no deep-water ports, so loading and unloading is done via lighters or long jetties. All of our ports are commercial. (We have no idea what a "personal" port is.)

Doing the math, we move more than a hundred billion USD worth of goods every day, so that could be called "busy". On a global scale, it probably isn't very "important", except to our direct trading partners.

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Mount Shavano
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Postby Mount Shavano » Sat Apr 16, 2011 8:30 pm

What ports exist in your nation?

Some major ports are Harbor Grove, Fremont, Navato, Jenkins, and Calhan. They are a few others, and many minor ones.

Are they primarily commercial or personal?

Commercial and/or naval.

How are they significant to your nation?

They generate a significant amount of wealth via trade and fishing, and allow us to maintain an excellent navy. However, we could survive without them.

How "busy" are your ports?

Moderately.

How important are they in relation to the global economy or trade?

Critically important to continental trade, and pretty important to regional trade, but I don't think any one nation can claim to be critical to global trade.
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Losea (Ancient)
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Postby Losea (Ancient) » Sat Apr 16, 2011 8:56 pm

We have 2 small seaports that are more like a ferry teminal, boat luanch, small dock, and a small marina. We have approximately 41.7 miles of coastline.

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Volmachtia
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Postby Volmachtia » Sat Apr 16, 2011 8:57 pm

Volmachtia is entirely landlocked, so our only ports are a handful spaceports between Volmachtia and its various lunar colonies. Most of our wet-navy is located at Port-du-Jonce in the nearby nation of Gefuere, a close ally of ours.

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The BranRiech
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Postby The BranRiech » Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:00 pm

the largest port in the Branriech is the Oashgargrad military shipyards, but our nation is also pursuing the idea of a spaceport to allow trade with other planets

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The Erusean Republic
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Postby The Erusean Republic » Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:09 pm

Oured and Sudentor City Ports.

It is run by the Port Authority of Oured/Sudentor.
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Postby The BranRiech » Sat Apr 16, 2011 9:16 pm

The Erusean Republic wrote:Oured and Sudentor City Ports.

It is run by the Port Authority of Oured/Sudentor.


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our spaceport is named Alyoshagrad spaceport

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Postby Maraque » Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:25 pm

We have several ports in the cities of Darkaan, Atrulia, Cuerak, Taerak, and Estakuri. The country's busiest ports are undoubtedly in Darkaan, where the bulk of our imports arrives via sea; total imports totaled $73.4 trillion last year, so you can imagine just how busy our ports really are, and the importance of them for our economy and trade.

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Valcluse
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Postby Valcluse » Sat Apr 16, 2011 10:56 pm

What ports exist in your nation?
There are ports at Antibes, Marseille, Cannes and Toulon. Valence has a small ferry terminal.

Are they primarily commercial or personal?
The vast majority of them are private ports and marinas hosting private craft. The exception to this is Toulon, which is the main base for the Valclusian Navy. Both Toulon and Valence have ferry terminal facilities to Corsica and other Meditterranean destination.

How are they significant to your nation?
Aside from Toulon, not very.

How important are they in relation to the global economy or trade?
Again, not very. Most of Valcluse's exports are sent via air freight or roald/rail transport to major French, Spanish, Italian and other major European ports.

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Mektar
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Postby Mektar » Sat Apr 16, 2011 11:14 pm

Mektaran ports are pretty important and very busy. Coastal regions are very densely populated, averaging just under 70,000 people per square mile and exporting all manner of tourism, tech and electronics. Mektar City being by far the most important, having several arificial islands devoted to tourist ports for cruise ships and airliners, as well as being home to Mektar's Space Elevator project.
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Costa Fiero
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Postby Costa Fiero » Sun Apr 17, 2011 2:48 am

What ports exist in your nation?
There are many ports and harbours in Costa Fiero. The two main ports are at Asturias and Marrua.

Are they primarily commercial or personal?
Most ports have a mix. But both the ports at Asturias and Marrua are commercial vessels only.

How are they significant to your nation?
Very. 90% of seabourne exports both regionwide and overseas pass through either port. Smaller ports do cater for national and some international shipping.

How "busy" are your ports?
Depends on the port. Asturias had an average ship coming in or leaving every ten minutes. Business has been slow this year, so that has dropped to around every half hour. Still, smaller ports can be quite busy.

How important are they in relation to the global economy or trade?
In a global scheme of things, not really. Except for our trading partners of course. However, Costa Fiero has always been the traditional refueling/resupply place for ships heading towards/coming from the Panama Canal. In terms of importance to South America, we like to think we're important.

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Dagnia
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Postby Dagnia » Sun Apr 17, 2011 2:57 am

Mostly commercial spaceports. They are vital to our economy which is heavily dependent on trade, and as an important economic power, vital to the galactic economy. Millions move through each one every week.
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Albaie
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Postby Albaie » Sun Apr 17, 2011 3:07 am

albaie city is our biggest as it is home to navy but indis city and rutten city are next biggest as they are home to battle group 5 and 6 the only port that doesn't have th navy in is abia which is the 5 biggest port in country
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Sucrati
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Postby Sucrati » Sun Apr 17, 2011 3:08 am

Vissex wrote:What ports exist in your nation? Are they primarily commercial or personal? How are they significant to your nation? How "busy" are your ports? How important are they in relation to the global economy or trade?


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Port By Name: Commercial, Military, Both

Twin City Seaport, Veri City/Lycoia City

Level of Importance to the Global Economy: HIGH
Notes: Our busiest port, we ship out vehicles and other goods from the Twin Cities.

Capitol City Seabase, Geris City

Level of Importance to the Global Economy: MEDIUM
Notes: Our largest military port and Seabase, usually our point of origin when shipping out military troops by sea.

Pikin Seaport, Pikin

Level of Importance to the Global Economy: MEDIUM
Notes: Our second most used commercial seaport, used for northern sea routes.

Harristown Seaport/Seabase, Harristown

Level of Importance to the Global Economy: MEDIUM
Notes: Our secondary military shipping point of origin, our third most busiest port, used for southern routes.

Enterprise Seabase, Batalia/Sterling

Level of Importance to the Global Economy: LOW
Notes: Repair Depot for ships, Training area.
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