1.   Mr Vincent said that Medway Ports were interested only in new freight customers, now using English ports, for Rosyth.

2.   As a parade of automakers, pharmaceutical companies and other manufacturers began using the port, Charleston found itself at the crossroads of a new global Southern economy.

3.   Currently, only three companies use the port, which was visited by only eight large ships last year.

4.   Even the iMac uses USB ports.

5.   In the case of Boston Harbor, shippers have opted to use Canadian ports, rather than pay the fee in Boston, Goldstein said.

6.   One senior military official said Tuesday that the Navy would stop using ports if agreements could not be reached.

7.   Rhode Island has been developing the old Quonset Point yard on Narragansett Bay, and now Volkswagen in threatening to use that port instead of Charlestown.

8.   Some ports are used for very specific things.

9.   State Department of Transportation officials inflamed opposition further by suggesting the cargo port could be used mainly for the export of wood chips.

10.   The closing of the port and the uncertainty of finding alternate routes has had a domino effect that is being felt by many companies that had used the port.