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Ports and harbours
Ports and harbours conduct four important functions: administrative (ensuring that the legal, socio-political and economic interests of the state and international maritime authorities are protected), development (ports are major promoters and instigators of a country’s or wider regional economy), industrial (major industries process the goods imported or exported in a port), and commercial (ports are international trade junction points where various modes of transport interchange; loading, discharging, transit of goods).