haiphong in English

noun
1
a port in northern Vietnam, on the Gulf of Tonkin, at the delta of the Red River; population 485,300 (est. 2009).

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1. Haiphong, the main northern port, was paralyzed.

2. Under French domination, Haiphong was level 1 city, equal to Saigon and Hanoi.

3. B-52s went all-out, bombing vital targets that were heretofore untouched, such as Haiphong Harbor.

4. COVER: An elder trains a ministerial servant to do metropolitan witnessing on Haiphong Road, Kowloon

5. But Hanoi and Haiphong were almost totally unscathed, and the nearby countryside seemed to have been scarcely touched.

6. • Upgrade the capacity of a container terminal at Haiphong Port to better handle coastal shipments of containerized commodities.

7. However, these sectors still account for almost a third of total employment in Haiphong, a larger share than industry.

8. The North Vietnamese responded by doubling the number of anti-aircraft batteries in the panhandle, but most of their SAM batteries remained deployed around Hanoi and Haiphong.

9. 25 VICO Shipping (Shanghai) Co. , Ltd. is headquartered in Hong Kong's freight forwarding company, with branch offices in Ho Chi Minh, Haiphong, Da Nang Jakarta and Shenzhen.

10. About one-third of the North's imports came down the northeast railroad from the PRC, while the remaining two-thirds came by sea through Haiphong and other ports.