free port

See also: freeport

English

Alternative forms

• freeport

Noun

free port (plural free ports)

1. A port or other area with relaxed jurisdiction of customs, tax rule or related national regulations.
   • 2016 January 31, Sam Knight, “The Art-World Insider Who Went Too Far”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 April 2016:

     Iris scanners, magnetic locks, and a security system known as Cerberus guard the freeport’s storerooms, whose contents are said to be insured for a hundred billion dollars, but the facility retains a blue-collar feel. […] A freeport offers few tax advantages and scarcely any security features that a standard bonded warehouse cannot provide. But Bouvier’s development in Singapore carried within it two ideas. The first is that freeports will become hubs in the sixty-billion-dollar international art market, destinations in themselves—places for scholars, restorers, insurers, art-finance specialists, consultants, and dealers.

Translations

port with relaxed customs

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自由港 (zh) (zìyóugǎng)

• Dutch: vrijhaven (nl) f
• Finnish: vapaasatama (fi)
• French: port franc (fr) m
• German: Zollfreigebiet (de) n, Freihafen (de) m (harbor)
• Indonesian: pelabuhan bebas (id)
• Marathi: खुले बंदर n (khule bandar)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: frihavn m or f

• Polish: wolny port m, port wolnocłowy m
• Spanish: puerto franco m
• Swedish: frihamn (sv) c