It is a usually ice-free port on the Baltic Sea.

Ice-free port, summer resort, and industrial city of one million, also known as Luda.

Sixty miles beyond is Murmansk, Russia's ice-free port in the north.

They also desired Norway for its ice-free ports.

Plans were quickly made to build a pipeline to bring the oil to an ice-free port so it culd be shipped south.

Valdez is the most northerly ice-free port in the Western Hemisphere.

The ice-free port is a contributing factor.

The port was the only ice-free port in northern Russia so it was strategically important.

To the north was Finland's only ice-free port in the Arctic, Petsamo.

Stewart is Canada's most northerly ice-free port.

It is one of the few ice-free ports in northernmost Europe, and the largest in Lithuania.

The background is the boom of mining in Finnish Lapland and the need for access to a deep, ice-free port.

It operates under contract from the Home Rule Government and provides fortnightly supplies to ice-free ports.

With an ice-free port, this rail terminus would allow Russia's far east to export freight year round to Pacific markets.

Reykjavik was clustered around the year-round ice-free port that housed the fishing fleet, the mainstay of Iceland's economy.

The town has its own bus line, and is the northernmost year-round ice-free port in the country, a shipping base for western and northwestern Greenland.

Murmansk was the only year-round ice-free port in the north, and it was a threat to the nickel mine at Petsamo.

With a new road and its ice-free port, Valdez became permanently established as the first overland supply route into the interior of Alaska.

It has always been of vital military importance because of Murmansk being an ice-free port on the Arctic Sea.

It included the ice-free port of Dairen (known as Dalian in Chinese), which became the main link to Japan.

Kaliningrad Oblast's economy is positively influenced by several factors, such as ice-free ports, the world's largest amber deposits and proximity to European countries.

Ventspils is situated on the Venta River and the Baltic Sea, and has an ice-free port.

The need for a railway was driven by the export needs of Jämtland, which needed an ice-free port for export of timber and lumber.

The town, along with Kaliningrad, remains one of only two year-round, ice-free ports along the Baltic Sea coastline available to Russia.

To provide a shorter connection to the Entente powers, a railway was constructed to the newly built Arctic ice-free port of Murmansk as well (1916).