1.   And it transformed the city into a thriving inland port.

2.   Ikmitulayev knew Muynak when it was a thriving port and popular resort on the Aral Sea.

3.   At the time, Salonica was a thriving multiethnic port and a hub for the Balkan nationalist currents that would help topple the Ottoman Empire.

4.   Georgetown had been a thriving Potomac River port for a half-century when the federal government swept it into the new District of Columbia.

5.   It had a thriving port.

6.   Until the last century Zanzibar was a thriving port for spices, ivory and slaves, where Omani sultans, Arab merchants and Indian traders did a brisk business.