Harbor Related pages | Navigation menuadding to it
Basic English 850 wordsPorts and harbours
shipspierstransportrailwayroad transportpipelineSan FranciscoCarthageD-Day1944mulberrybeaches
Harbor
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Ship harbor in Greece
Harbour means to shelter or keep safe. A harbor (or harbour) is a place where ships may shelter. Some harbours are used as ports to load and unload ships. The port will have quays or piers where the ships may be moored or tied up and a transport system for taking goods inland. Often railway and road transport will be used. Goods also move by pipeline transport and by smaller ships on rivers.
Harbors can be natural as in San Francisco or artificial as in ancient Carthage or a mix of both. During the D-Day operations of 1944, two artificial harbors (named mulberry) were built just off the beaches where the invasion was going to happen.
Related pages |
- Dock
- Dockyard
- Marina
- Naval base
- Quay
- Seaport
- Transport
- Wharf
This short article about transport can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it.Categories:
- Basic English 850 words
- Ports and harbours
(window.RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function()mw.config.set("wgPageParseReport":"limitreport":"cputime":"0.016","walltime":"0.029","ppvisitednodes":"value":52,"limit":1000000,"ppgeneratednodes":"value":0,"limit":1500000,"postexpandincludesize":"value":783,"limit":2097152,"templateargumentsize":"value":65,"limit":2097152,"expansiondepth":"value":4,"limit":40,"expensivefunctioncount":"value":0,"limit":500,"unstrip-depth":"value":0,"limit":20,"unstrip-size":"value":0,"limit":5000000,"entityaccesscount":"value":0,"limit":400,"timingprofile":["100.00% 5.842 1 Template:Transport-stub","100.00% 5.842 1 -total"," 58.39% 3.411 1 Template:Stub-template"],"cachereport":"origin":"mw1274","timestamp":"20190327114720","ttl":2592000,"transientcontent":false););"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","name":"Harbor","url":"https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbor","sameAs":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q283202","mainEntity":"http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q283202","author":"@type":"Organization","name":"Contributors to Wikimedia projects","publisher":"@type":"Organization","name":"Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.","logo":"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://www.wikimedia.org/static/images/wmf-hor-googpub.png","datePublished":"2003-03-28T14:49:43Z","dateModified":"2017-03-29T14:12:18Z","image":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Piraeus_harbor_3-2004.JPG","headline":"sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be docked"(window.RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function()mw.config.set("wgBackendResponseTime":118,"wgHostname":"mw1269"););
