This is complicated somewhat by the fact the city of Bremen has owned the "overseas port" within Bremerhaven since 1927.

Examples are the functions of receiving, processing through customs, inspecting, sorting, and consolidating containers going to the same overseas port.

It has an excellent harbor and is the chief port for goods moving between the Amazon Basin and Brazilian or overseas ports.

Humboldt Bay was made an official port of entry in 1882 which permitted shipping directly to overseas ports.

Since late 2002, when the program started at the first major overseas port, 40,628 containers headed for the United States from participating ports were deemed high risk.

It outlawed their exploitation by officers and ship owners by practices such as indefinite hours, inadequate food, poor wages, and abandonment in overseas ports with back pay owing.

The bill says that before any United States-bound ship container leaves an overseas port, it must be checked for radioactive material that could be used to build weapons.

The overseas port is to the east of Rostock.

The proximity to the British overseas ports, he developed a strong passion for transatlantic ships.

The Department of Homeland Security has stepped up inspections of goods and people on the border and at overseas ports.