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Outport

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Secondary or auxiliary port

Anoutport is anyport considered secondary to a main port (including aprovincial one as opposed to acapital one). It often is a small port built to support the commercial operations of a large port.^[1] ThePort of Tilbury from thePort of London is a good example.Avonmouth forBristol and, on a smaller and now historical scale,Fordwich forCanterbury are others.^{[citation needed]}

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