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A free port (porto franco) or free zone (US: Foreign-Trade Zone) is a port or area with relaxed jurisdiction with respect to the country of location. Free economic zone
Free economic zone

Many countries have, or have had at some time, designated areas where companies are taxed very lightly or not at all to encourage development or for some other reason....
s may also be called free ports.

Most commonly a free port is a special customs area
Customs area

A customs area is an area designated for storage of commercial goods that have not yet cleared customs. It is surrounded by a customs border....
 with favorable customs regulations (or no customs duties and controls for transshipment
Transshipment

Transshipment or Transhipment is the shipment of good to an intermediate destination, and then from there to yet another destination.One possible reason is to change the means of transport during the journey , known as transloading....
). Earlier in history some free ports like Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
 enjoyed political autonomy. Many international airports have free ports, though they tend to be called customs areas, customs zones, or international zones.







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A free port (porto franco) or free zone (US: Foreign-Trade Zone) is a port or area with relaxed jurisdiction with respect to the country of location. Free economic zone
Free economic zone

Many countries have, or have had at some time, designated areas where companies are taxed very lightly or not at all to encourage development or for some other reason....
s may also be called free ports.

Most commonly a free port is a special customs area
Customs area

A customs area is an area designated for storage of commercial goods that have not yet cleared customs. It is surrounded by a customs border....
 with favorable customs regulations (or no customs duties and controls for transshipment
Transshipment

Transshipment or Transhipment is the shipment of good to an intermediate destination, and then from there to yet another destination.One possible reason is to change the means of transport during the journey , known as transloading....
). Earlier in history some free ports like Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
 enjoyed political autonomy. Many international airports have free ports, though they tend to be called customs areas, customs zones, or international zones.

Free ports and Free Zones by country


Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....


Egypt
Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
 
  • Port Said
    Port Said

    Port Said is a northeastern Egyptian city near the Suez Canal, with an approximate population of 515,007 .The economic base of Port Said is fishing and industries, like chemicals, processed food, and cigarettes....
  • Suez Canal Container Terminal
    Suez Canal Container Terminal

    Suez Canal Container Terminal is a state of the art facility emerged at Port Said as a transshipment centre for the Eastern Mediterranean at the Northern entrance to the Suez Canal....

Morocco
Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 34 million and an area just under 447,000 km2....
  • Tangier Exportation Free Zone
    Tangier Exportation Free Zone

    Tangier Exportation Free Zone is a Free port located south of Tangier, Morocco. The zone has an area of 3.45 km?. It is managed by Tangier Free Zone ....

Mauritius
Mauritius

Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius, , is an island nation off the coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about 900 kilometres east of Madagascar....
  • Port Louis Free Port


Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....


Bahrain
Bahrain

The Kingdom of Bahrain, in , , literally Kingdom of the Two Seas).Bahrain is an Arabic island country in the Persian Gulf ruled by the Al Khalifa regime....
  • Manama

Hong Kong, China
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
  • Hong Kong
    Hong Kong

    Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....


India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
  • Banglore
  • Mumbai
    Mumbai

    Mumbai— formerly Bombay, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The city proper has approximately 14 million people and, along with the neighbouring suburbs of Navi Mumbai and Thane, Mumbai forms the World's largest urban agglomerations according to the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report with around 19...
  • Kolkata
    Kolkata

    , Indian renaming controversy , is the Capital of the Indian States and territories of India of West Bengal. It is located in East India on the east bank of the River Hooghly....
  • Kerala
    Kerala

    Kerala is a Indian Union States and territories of India located in the southwestern part of India. With an Arabian Sea coastline on the west, it is bordered on the north by Karnataka and by Tamil Nadu on the south and east....


Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
  • Batam Island


Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
  • Qeshm
    Qeshm

    Qeshm The average temperature on the island is approximately 27 degrees Celsius with the warmest months are June through August and the coldest from October to January....
  • Chabahar
    Chabahar

    Chabahar , previously also Bandar Beheshti, is an Iranian city and a free port on the coast of the Gulf of Oman.Chabahar is situated on the Makran of the Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran and is officially designated as a Free Trade and Industrial Zone by Iran's government....
  • Kish
    Kish

    Kish may refer to:...
  • PSEEZ
  • Arvand

Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
  • Eilat
    Eilat

    Eilat is Israel's South District city, a busy port as well as a popular resort, located at the northern tip of the Red Sea, on the Gulf of Aqaba....

Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
  • Nagasaki
  • Niigata
    Niigata, Niigata

    is the capital and the most populous cities of Japan of Niigata Prefecture, Japan. It lies on the northwest coast of Honshu, the largest island of Japan, and faces the Sea of Japan and Sado Island....


Lebanon
Lebanon

Lebanon , officially the Republic of Lebanon or Lebanese Republic , is a country in Western Asia, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea....
 
  • Port Beirut


Macao, China
Macau

The Macau Special Administrative Region, , commonly known as Macau or Macao , is one of the two special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, the other being Hong Kong....
  • Macao
    Macau

    The Macau Special Administrative Region, , commonly known as Macau or Macao , is one of the two special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, the other being Hong Kong....
     (Ka-Ho)

Malaysia
Malaysia

Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government....
  • Penang
    Penang

    Penang is a States of Malaysia in Malaysia, located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia by the Strait of Malacca. Penang is the second smallest state in Malaysia after Perlis, and the eighth most populous....
     Until 1969

Pakistan
Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
  • Gwadar
    Gwadar

    Gwadar is located on the southwestern coast of Pakistan, on the Arabian Sea. It is strategically located between three increasingly important regions: the oil-rich Middle East, heavily Human population South Asia and the Economics emerging and Natural resource-laden region of Central Asia....

Philippines
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
  • The former United States Navy
    United States Navy

    The United States Navy is the navy of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy currently has approximately 331,682 personnel on active duty as of 31 December 2008 and 124,000 in the United States Navy Reserve....
     base
    U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay

    U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay was a major ship-repair, supply, and rest and recreation facility of the United States Navy located in Zambales, Philippines....
     of Subic Bay
  • Zamboanga Economic Zone and Freeport
  • Clark Air Base and Freeport


Singapore
Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands....
  • Singapore
    Singapore

    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands....

South Korea
South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea , ), often referred to as Korea and the "names of Korea#Revival of the names", is a Semi-presidential system republic in East Asia, located in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula....
  • Incheon
    Incheon

    Incheon is a Special cities of Korea and a major seaport on the west coast of South Korea, near Seoul.Human settlement at the location goes back to the Neolithic....
  • Busan
    Busan

    Busan Metropolitan City, also known as Pusan is the largest seaport city in South Korea. Busan has a population of 3.65 million and is South Korea's second largest metropolis, after Seoul....
  • Gwangyang Bay

Taiwan
Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
  • Port of Keelung
    Port of Keelung

    The Port of Keelung , also refers to Keelung Harbor, located in the vicinity of Keelung City, Taiwan. It is operated by the Keelung Harbor Bureau, Ministry of Transportation and Communications of Republic of China....
     Free Trade Zone
  • Port of Taipei
    Port of Taipei

    The Port of Taipei is located in Danshui, Taiwan. The port is scheduled to be completed in 2011.References...
     Free Trade Zone
  • Port of Taichung Free Trade Zone
  • Port of Kaohsiung
    Port of Kaohsiung

    The Port of Kaohsiung is the largest harbor of Taiwan, handling approximately 10 million twenty-foot equivalent units worth of cargo in 2007....
     Free Trade Zone
  • Taoyuan Air Cargo Park Free Trade Zone




Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
  • Mersin
    Mersin

    This article is about the city of Mersin, see Mersin Province, , for information about the surrounding area.Mersin is a large city and a busy port on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey and is the capital of the Mersin Province....


United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates is a federation of seven states situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman and Saudi Arabia....
  • Fujairah Creative City
  • Dubai Internet City
    Dubai Internet City

    Dubai Internet City is an information technology park created by the Government of Dubai as a free economic zone and a strategic base for companies targeting regional emerging markets....
  • Dubai Media City
    Dubai Media City

    Dubai Media City part of Dubai Holding is a tax free zone within Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It has been built by the Dubai government to boost UAE's media foothold, and has become a regional hub for media organizations ranging from: news agencies, publishing, online media, advertising, production, and broadcast facilities....
  • Dubai Studio City
    Dubai Studio City

    Dubai Studio City is part of Dubai Media City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Following in the footsteps of Dubai Media City, it will cater to the production needs of the region and has plans to build movie studios like Hollywood sound stages backlots for various production needs....
  • International Media and Production Zone
  • Dubai Knowledge Village
    Dubai Knowledge Village

    Dubai Knowledge Village,a member of Dubai Holding subsidiary TECOM Investments, offers facilities for training and learning support activities....
  • Dubai Healthcare City
    Dubai Healthcare City

    The Dubai Healthcare City is one of the numerous specialised 'cities-within-a-city' in Dubai targeted at the healthcare and the pharmaceutical industries....
  • Dubai International Financial Center
    Dubai International Financial Center

    The Dubai International Financial Centre is a near-shore financial hub for the MENA containing a capital market designated as a finance free zone in Dubai....
  • DuBiotech
    Dubiotech

    DuBiotech, short for The Dubai Biotechnology and Research Park is a new development in Dubai aimed to attract biotechnology research and development to the emirate....
  • Dubai Outsource Zone
  • Jebel Ali Free Zone
    Jebel Ali Free Zone

    Jebel Ali Free Zone is a free economic zone located in the Jebel Ali area of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It offers business and tax incentives to corporations....
  • RAK Media City
  • RAK IT Park
  • Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone
    Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone

    Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone is one of the fastest growing "free zones" of the United Arab Emirates . Located in the northern part of the U.A.E., and only 45 minutes by road from Dubai....


Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....


Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
(part of the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
)
  • Linz
    Linz

    Linz is the third largest city of Austria and capital of the States of Austria of Upper Austria . It is located in the north centre of Austria, approximately 30 km south of the Czech Republic border, on both sides of the river Danube....
     (port on river Danube
    Danube

    The Danube is the longest river in the European Union and Europe's second longest river after the Volga.The river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg River rivers which join at the eponymously named German town Donaueschingen, after which it is known as the Danube and flows eastwards for a distance...
    )
  • Vienna
    Vienna

    Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
     (port on river Danube
    Danube

    The Danube is the longest river in the European Union and Europe's second longest river after the Volga.The river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg River rivers which join at the eponymously named German town Donaueschingen, after which it is known as the Danube and flows eastwards for a distance...
    )


Belarus
Belarus

Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
  • Brest FEZ
    Brest FEZ

    The Brest Free Economic Zone was created in Brest, Belarus, the gateway city at the border of Belarus and Poland in 1996. Brest is a perfect place for a free economic zone....
  • Grodno FEZ
    Grodno FEZ

    The free economic zone Grodnoinvest is situated in the north-western part of Belarus in the city of Grodno in immediate proximity to the borders of the European Union and CIS countries....


Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
  • Rijeka
    Rijeka

    Rijeka is the principal seaport of Croatia, located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea. It has 144,043 inhabitants and is Croatia's third largest city....
    , 1723

Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
(part of the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
)
  • Freeport of Copenhagen
    Copenhagen

    Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban area with a population of 1,153,615 . Copenhagen is situated on the Islands of Zealand and Amager....
     (Københavns Frihavn)


Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
(part of the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
)
  • Free zone of Lappeenranta
    Lappeenranta

    Lappeenranta is a cities of Finland and Municipalities of Finland that resides on the shore of the lake Saimaa in South-Eastern Finland, about from the Russian border....
     (Lappeenrannan Vapaa-alue)
  • Freeport of Hanko
    Hanko, Finland

    Hanko in Finnish, , ), is a bilingual port List of cities and towns in Finland and Municipalities of Finland on the south coast of Finland, west of Helsinki....
     (Hangon Vapaasatama)

France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
(part of the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
)
  • Free Zone of Verdon
    Verdon

    Verdon may refer to:Several places in the United States*Verdon Township, Minnesota in Minnesota*Verdon Township, Nebraska in Nebraska...
     - Port de Bordeaux
    Bordeaux

    is a Port city on the Garonne in southwest France, with one million inhabitants in its aire urbaine at a 2008 estimate. It is the Capital of the Aquitaine regions of France, as well as the Prefectures in France of the Gironde Departments of France....
     (Zone franche du Verdon — Port de Bordeaux)

Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
(part of the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
)
  • Freeport of Hamburg
    Hamburg

    Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany , and is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg metropolitan area has more than 4.3 million inhabitants....
     (Freihafen Hamburg)
  • Freeport of Bremen (Freihafen Bremen)
  • Freeport of Bremerhaven
    Bremerhaven

    Bremerhaven is the port city of the free city and States of Germany of Bremen , Germany. It forms an enclave in the state of Lower Saxony and is located at the mouth of the Weser River on its eastern bank, opposite the town of Nordenham....
     (Freihafen Bremerhaven)
  • Freeport of Emden
    Emden

    Emden is a city and seaport in the northwest of Germany, on river Ems . It is the main city of the region of East Frisia; in 2006, the city had a total population of 51,692....
     (Freihafen Emden)
  • Freeport of Kiel
    Kiel

    Kiel is the Capital and most populous city of the northern Germany state Schleswig-Holstein.Kiel is approximately 90 km to the north of Hamburg....
     (Freihafen Kiel)
  • Freeport of Cuxhaven
    Cuxhaven

    Cuxhaven is a large independent town and seat of the Cuxhaven , in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the shore of the North Sea at the mouth of the Elbe River....
     (Freihafen Cuxhaven)
  • Freeport of Deggendorf
    Deggendorf

    Deggendorf is a town in Bavaria, capital of the Deggendorf .The earliest traces of settlement in the area are found near the Danube, about 8,000 years ago....
     (Freihafen Deggendorf)
  • Freeport of Duisburg
    Duisburg

    Duisburg is a Germany city in the western part of the Ruhr Area in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is an independent metropolitan borough within D?sseldorf ....
     (Freihafen Duisburg)

Georgia
Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
  • Ajaria autonomous republic
    • Batumi
      Batumi

      Batumi is a seaside city on the Black Sea coast and Capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia . It has a population of 121,806 ....
      , 1878-1886 (then Russia
      Russia

      Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
      )

Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
(part of the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
)
  • Free zone of Piraeus
    Piraeus

    Piraeus is a city in the periphery of Attica, Greece, and a municipality within Athens urban area, located 10 km southwest of its center....
  • Free zone of Thessaloniki
    Thessaloniki

    Thessaloniki , Thessalonica, or Salonica is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country in Greece and the capital of Macedonia , the nation's largest Regions of Greece....
  • Free zone of Heraclion

Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
(part of the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
)
  • Ringaskiddy
    Ringaskiddy

    Ringaskiddy is a village south of Cork , in County Cork, Republic of Ireland. Located across Cork harbour south from C?bh, and connected to Cork city by the N28 road Roads in Ireland the village is now a major ferry port and is one of two free ports in Ireland, the other being in the River Shannon area....
     Free Port
  • Shannon Free Zone
    Shannon Free Zone

    Shannon Free Zone is a 2.43 km?, 600 acre, International Industrial estate adjacent to Shannon International Airport, County Clare, Ireland which is 20km from Limerick city....


Isle of Man
Isle of Man

The Isle of Man , or Mann , is a self-governing Crown dependency, located in the Irish Sea at the geographical centre of the British Isles....
  • Ronaldsway Airport (Ballasala)


Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
(part of the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
)
  • Livorno
    Livorno

    Livorno or Leghorn is a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy. It is the Capital of the Province of Livorno and the third-largest port on the western coast of Italy, having a population of approximately 170,000 residents as of the year 2007....
    , 1675-1860
  • Free Zone of Trieste
    Trieste

    Trieste is a city and port in northeastern Italy very near to the Slovenian border, to the North, East, and South. Trieste is located at the head of the Gulf of Trieste on the Adriatic Sea....
     (Porto franco di Trieste)
  • Free Zone of Venice
    Venice

    Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
     (Porto franco di Venezia)


Malta
Malta

Malta , officially the Republic of Malta , is a densely populated developed country European microstates microstate in the European Union....
(part of the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
)
  • Malta
    Malta

    Malta , officially the Republic of Malta , is a densely populated developed country European microstates microstate in the European Union....
     Freeport

Latvia
Latvia

Latvia The Latvians are a Baltic peoples culturally related to the Estonians and Lithuanians, with the Latvian language having many similarities with Lithuanian language, but not with the Estonian language....
(part of the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
)
  • Free port of Riga
    Riga

    Riga the Capital of Latvia, is situated on the Baltic Sea coast on the mouth of the river Daugava River. Riga is the largest city in the Baltic states....
  • Free port of Ventspils
    Free port of Ventspils

    Free Port of Ventspils is a seaport located on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea , western part of Latvia.For the first time Port of Ventspils was mentioned in historical chronicles in 1263....

Lithuania
Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
(part of the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
)
  • Free Port of Klaipeda
    Port of Klaipeda

    The Port of Klaipeda is a seaport located in Klaipeda, Lithuania. It is one of the few ice-free ports in northernmost Europe, and the largest in Lithuania....

Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
(part of the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
)
  • Free Zone of Madeira
    Madeira

    Madeira is a Portugal archipelago in the north Atlantic Ocean that lies between and . It is one of the Autonomous regions of Portugal, with Madeira Island and Porto Santo Island being the only inhabited islands....
     - Caniçal (Zona franca da Madeira - Caniçal)

Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
  • Constanta Port, January 2007

Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
  • Nakhodka
    Nakhodka

    Nakhodka is a seaport types of inhabited localities in Russia in Primorsky Krai, Russia. The city had 148,826 inhabitants as of the Russian Census , down from 160,056 recorded in the Soviet Census ....
  • Vladivostok
    Vladivostok

    File:vladivostokrussia.jpgVladivostok is Russia's largest port types of inhabited localities in Russia on the Pacific Ocean and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai....
    , 1861-1909


Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
(part of the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
)
  • Free zone of Barcelona
    Barcelona

    Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081....
     (Zona franca de Barcelona)
  • Free zone of Cádiz
    Cádiz

    C?diz is a city and port in southwestern Spain. It is the capital of the province of C?diz, one of eight which make up the Autonomous communities of Spain of Andalusia....
     (Zona franca de Cádiz)
  • Free zone of Vigo
    Vigo

    Vigo is a city in Galicia , Spain, located in the province of Pontevedra . Vigo is the largest city in Spain which is not a provincial capital. It is known as The Olive City....
     (Zona franca de Vigo)
  • Free zone of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
    Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

    Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is a Spain city on the island, Gran Canaria, which is one of the Canary Islands located 210 kilometers off the northwestern coast of the African continent within the Atlantic Ocean....
     (Zona franca de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
  • (Ceuta
    Ceuta

    Ceuta is an autonomous community#autonomous cities of Spain located on the North African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, on the Mediterranean, which separates it from the Spanish mainland....
     and Melilla
    Melilla

    Melilla is an autonomous cities of Spain located on the Mediterranean, on the north coast in North Africa. It was regarded as a part of M?laga prior to March 14, 1995, when the city's Statute of Autonomy was passed....
     are not Free Ports or Free zones because they are parts of Spain, but not part of the European union for customs and excises)

Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
(part of the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
)
  • Marstrand
    Marstrand

    Marstrand is a seaside Urban areas of Sweden in Kung?lv Municipality, V?stra G?taland County in western Sweden. It has held Cities of Sweden privileges since 1200....
    , 17th century
  • Saint-Barthélemy, 1785-1878


Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
  • Mersin
    Mersin

    This article is about the city of Mersin, see Mersin Province, , for information about the surrounding area.Mersin is a large city and a busy port on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey and is the capital of the Mersin Province....

Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
  • free port and free economic zone Odessa
    Odessa

    Odessa or Odesa is the Capital of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major port located on the shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 ....
    • 1819-1858
    • Trade sea port of Odessa
      Odessa

      Odessa or Odesa is the Capital of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major port located on the shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 ....
      , January 1, 2000 for 25 years

United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
(part of the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
)
  • Liverpool
    Liverpool

    Liverpool [] is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a History of borough status in England and Wales in 1207 and was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1880....
     Free Zone
  • Prestwick
    Prestwick

    Prestwick is a town located in South Ayrshire on the south west coast of Scotland, approximately to the south-west of Glasgow. It adjoins the larger town of Ayr, the centre of which is approximately south....
     Airport Free Zone
  • Southampton
    Southampton

    Southampton is the largest City status in the United Kingdom in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, on the south coast of England, and is sited around 100 km south-west of London and 30 km north-west of Portsmouth....
     Free Zone
  • Tilbury
    Tilbury

    Tilbury is a town in the borough of Thurrock, Essex, England. As a settlement it is of relatively recent existence, although it has important historical connections, being the location of a 16th century fort, and an ancient cross-river ferry....
     Free Zone
  • Port of Sheerness
    Sheerness

    Sheerness is a town located beside the mouth of the River Medway on the northwest corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England. With a population of 12,000 it is the largest town on the island....
     Free Zone
  • Humberside
    Humberside

    Humberside was a non-metropolitan county of England from 1 April 1974 until 1 April 1996. It was composed of two halves either side of the Humber estuary, created using part of the East Riding of Yorkshire and West Riding of Yorkshires of Yorkshire and Lindsey....
     Free Zone
  • London Docklands


The Americas
Americas

The Americas are the region of the Western hemisphere that consists of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions....


Argentina
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
  • Zona Franca La Plata
    La Plata

    La Plata is the capital city of the Provinces of Argentina of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, as well as of the departments of Argentina of La Plata Partido....


Bermuda
Bermuda

Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, it is situated around 1770 kilometres northeast of Miami, Florida, and 1350 kilometres south of Halifax Regional Municipality, Canada....
  • Free port of Hamilton Harbour, Hamilton, Bermuda
    Hamilton, Bermuda

    Hamilton is the Capital of Bermuda. It is located on the north side of Hamilton Harbour, Bermuda, and is Bermuda's main port. Although there is a parish of the Hamilton Parish, Bermuda, the city of Hamilton is in the parish of Pembroke Parish, Bermuda....

Brazil
Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
  • Zona Franca de Manaus
    Manaus

    Manaus is a city in Brazil, the capital of Amazonas state. It is situated at the confluence of the Rio Negro and River Solim?es rivers. It is the most populous city of Amazonas, according to the statistics of Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics and is a popular tourism destination....

Chile
Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
  • Iquique
    Iquique

    ||-||-||-||-||}Iquique is a city in northern Chile, capital of Tarapac? Region, on the Pacific coast, west of the Atacama Desert and the Pampa del Tamarugal....

Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are List of divided islands, Saint Martin being the other....
  • Mega Port of Punta Caucedo


http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/inimr-ri.nsf/en/gr115831e.html http://www.port-technology.com/projects/caucedo/

Nicaragua
Nicaragua

Nicaragua officially the Republic of Nicaragua , is a representative democracy republic. It is the largest state in Central America with an area of 130,000 km2, about the size of the state of New York....
  • Managua


Panama
Panama

Panama, officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America and, in turn, North America. Situated on an isthmus connecting North and South America, some categorize it as a transcontinental nation....
  • Colón
    Colón, Panama

    Col?n is a sea port on the Caribbean Sea coast of Panama. The city lies near the Atlantic Ocean entrance to the Panama Canal. It is capital of Panama's Col?n Province and has traditionally been known as Panama's second city....

Uruguay
Uruguay

Uruguay is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to 3.46 million people, of whom 1.7 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area....
  • Zona Franca de Montevideo
    Montevideo

    Montevideo is the largest city, the capital and chief port of Uruguay. Montevideo is the only city in the country with a population over 1,000,000....
  • Zona Franca Colonia


U.S.
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...


Venezuela
Venezuela

Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
  • Free port of Isla Margarita
    Isla Margarita

    Margarita Island is the largest island of the Nueva Esparta States of Venezuela in Venezuela, situated in the Caribbean Sea, off the northeastern coast of the country....
     (Puerto Libre de Margarita)
  • Free zone of the Paraguaná Peninsula
    Paraguaná Peninsula

    The Paraguan? Peninsula is a peninsula in Venezuela, situated in the state of Falc?n. The island of Aruba lies 27 km to the north. Bonaire and Cura?ao are slightly further away....
     (Zona Franca de la Península de Paraguaná)


See also

  • Duty free
  • Entrepôt
    Entrepôt

    An entrep?t is a trading post where merchandise can be Import and exported without paying import Duty , often at a profit. This profit is possible because of trade conditions, for example, the reluctance of ships to travel the entire length of a long trading route, and selling to the entrep?t instead....


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