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 Translation for 'port of call' from English to French
NOUN   a port of call | ports of call
naut.
escale {f}
port of call
naut.
port {m} d'escale
port of call
naut.
relâche {f} [bateau]
port of call
Partial Matches
naut.
faire escale dans un port
to call at a port [Br.] [a ship]
géogr.pol.
Port-d'Espagne {f} [capitale de Trinité-et-Tobago] [aussi : Port of Spain]
Port of Spain
naut.
port {m} d'attache
port of registry
anat.biol.méd.
déféquer
to answer the call of nature
anat.
besoin {m} naturel [nécessité d'uriner]
call of nature [need to urinate]
faire ses besoins [loc.]to answer the call of nature [idiom]
pol.
poser la question de confiance
to call for a vote of confidence
nucl.
hublot {m} de chargement
port
œnol.
porto {m}
port
naut.
port {m} d'échouage
tidal port
port {m} de pêchefishing port
géogr.
baie {f} de Sydney [aussi : Port Jackson ou Sydney Harbour]
Port Jackson
naut.
bâbord {m}
port [left]
naut.occup.
pilote {m} de port
port pilot
géogr.pol.
Port-Louis {f} [capitale de Maurice]
Port Louis
géogr.pol.
Port-Vila {f} [capitale du Vanuatu ]
(Port) Vila
naut.
gare {f} maritime
ferry port
naut.
portuaire {adj}
port [attr.]
géogr.pol.
Port Moresby {f} [capitale de la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée]
Port Moresby
géogr.
cité {f} portuaire
port city
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Usage Examples English
  • Since 1982 it has been a port of call for cruise ships, after the city and port authority spent $10 million in pier improvements to accommodate these larger ships.
  • Hasle also became a port of call on the steamship route to Copenhagen operated by the Østbornholmske Dampskipsselskab.
  • The "Babcock" served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919, with San Francisco as its port of call.
  • Bonaire is also a port of call for more than fifteen cruise lines who make more than eighty calls per season at the island. The total passenger capacity for cruise ships in Bonaire is about 185,000.
  • Valdez is connected to the interior of Alaska by the Richardson Highway, and is a port of call in the Alaska Marine Highway ferry system.

  • Bordering the State of Georgia and the Chattahoochee River, Columbia was a major port-of-call for steamboats and was known to many as "Old Columbia".
  • Besides smaller regional cruise ships such as Yacht Starship and SunCruz Casino, Tampa also serves as a port of call for three cruise lines: Holland America's MS "Ryndam", Royal Caribbean's "Grandeur of the Seas" and "Radiance of the Seas", and Carnival's "Inspiration" and "Legend".
  • Kidd became aware both that he was wanted and that he could not make use of the Act of Grace upon his arrival in Anguilla, his first port of call since St.
  • The area was a fishing village used as a port of call between the Lérins Islands.
  • In pre-Tang times Tonkin was the port of call for ships on the South China Sea, though the center of commerce later moved north to Guangdong.

  • One of the major tourist areas in St. Lucia, Castries is a port of call for cruise ships. They dock at Pointe Seraphine, to the north of the harbour.
  • Covers that are postmarked at sea or their next port of call will carry a Paquebot postmark.
  • Located in Binhai Economic Zone, a national new economic zone of China, Tianjin harbor is the port of call of international cruises visiting the wider area, including Beijing.
  • The islands of Madeira have a long winemaking history, dating back to the Age of Exploration (approximately from the end of the 15th century) when Madeira was a standard port of call for ships heading to the New World or East Indies.
  • The island also has a sea port which is the primary port of call for commercial container and cruise traffic.

  • The port's location at the extreme western point of Africa, at the crossroad of the major sea-lanes linking Europe to South America, makes it a natural port of call for shipping companies.
  • In early 1770 Spanish commander, Don Juan Ignacio de Madariaga, briefly visited Port Egmont.
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