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Haikou International Duty-Free City Shopping Complex, is the world's biggest stand-alone duty-free store in terms of physical size. Located in Haikou, Hainan, China, the buildings have a total area of 280,000 square meters. [1] [2] Aelia Duty Free – a brand of Lagardère Travel Retail. [3] Comturist – a chain of duty-free stores.
Brendan O'Regan established the world's first duty-free shop at Shannon Airport in Ireland in 1947; [6] it remains in operation today. Designed to provide a service for trans-Atlantic airline passengers typically travelling between Europe and North America whose flights stopped for refuelling on outbound and inbound legs of their journeys, it was an immediate success and has been copied worldwide.
1937 poster celebrating the United States' first foreign trade zone, Staten Island In the United States, a foreign-trade zone (FTZ) is a geographical area, in (or adjacent to) a United States port of entry, where commercial merchandise, both domestic and foreign, receives the same Customs treatment it would if it were outside the commerce of the United States.
Terms include free port (porto Franco), free zone (zona franca), bonded area (US: foreign-trade zone), free economic zone, free-trade zone, export processing zone and maquiladora. Most commonly a free port is a special customs area or small customs territory with generally less strict customs regulations (or no customs duties or controls for ...
Beechcraft Model 18 carrying freight to Friday Harbor from the Washington mainland. Friday Harbor Airport covers an area of 145 acres (59 ha) which contains one runway (16/34) with a 3,402 x 75 ft (1,037 x 23 m) asphalt pavement.
After Pan Am moved its seaplane operations from Port Washington to LaGuardia Airport, Grumman became a major tenant at the seaplane base, using it as a facility for its seaplanes. [13] [15] [16] The current iteration of the seaplane base was activated in May 1948, around which time the original hangar and terminal area was abandoned. [17] [18]
The Miracle Mile is a prominent shopping district in Manhasset in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. It consists of the area along Northern Boulevard (NY 25A) between Community Drive to the west, and Port Washington Boulevard (NY 101) and Searingtown Road to the east.
Port Washington is within the boundaries of (and is thus served by) the Port Washington Union Free School District. [11] [50] Additionally, a small portion of the hamlet's southeastern corner is within the boundaries of the Roslyn Union Free School District. However, there are no homes in that area of the hamlet, and as such, all students in ...