They had to be given special priority in order to clear the congested port of Naples, but by 9 August, 327 gliders had been delivered and assembled.

Recently, a free port has opened near the city, creating a deep water access for larger vessels, providing oil industry vessels an alternative to the congested port of Malabo.

Traffic on the line would be mostly coal from deposits in the Gunnedah Basin and function as an alternative to congested ports in Sydney and Newcastle.

From 1845, a scheme was proposed to connect the industrialised Northwest England and Manchester to the deep water port at Milford Haven, to provide an alternative to the congested Port of Liverpool.

They considered that the British government could finance a rail connection from to Northern Rhodesia to Tanganyika, rather than relying on transport links through Southern Rhodesia and its congested port of Beira.

There, throughout the World War II period, she helped to insure the efficient flow of men and matériel in and out of that congested port to the war fronts in Europe and Africa.

A few miles from Ca Ira, a huge oil tanker unloaded its cargo this morning while a Coast Guard cutter had to negotiate its way through a congested port before unloading 212 Haitians intercepted at sea on Friday.