Entrepôt
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An entrepôt is a transshipment port, city, or trading post where merchandise may be imported, stored, or traded, usually to be exported again. Typically located on a crossroads, river, canal, or marit
The entrepôt dock of Amsterdam completed in 1830 as a warehouse to store goods entrepôt, or tax-free in transit
Factory (trading post)
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Factory was the common name during the medieval and early modern eras for an entrepôt – which was an early form of free-trade zone or transshipment point. At a factory, local inhabitants could interac
Entrepôt
…Port of Port Hedland, Australia Factory (trading post) – Type of medieval trading post Free port – Geographic area where economic activity between and within countries is less regulated…
A Dutch East India Company factory in Hugli-Chuchura, 1665
The Oostershuis, a Kontor in Antwerp
Elmina Castle in modern-day Ghana, viewed from the sea in 1668
Dejima island in Nagasaki Bay, first Portuguese and then Dutch factory