Port sudan Sentence Examples
The railway has a terminus at Suakin, but Port Sudan was chosen as the principal entrepot of the commerce carried by the railway.
There is also a direct mail service between Suez and Port Sudan.
On the Red Sea are Port Sudan and Suakin.
The total distance to Port Sudan from Khartum is 493 m., the line to Suakin being 4 m.
From Port Sudan and Suakin there is a regular steamship service to Europe via the Suez Canal.
The climate of Port Sudan is very hot and damp and fever is common.
When the building of the railway between the Nile and the Red Sea was begun, it was determined to create a port at this harbour - which was renamed Port Sudan (Bander es- Sudan).
The railway (which has termini both at Port Sudan and Suakin) was opened in January 1906 and the customs-house in the May following.
The imports are largely cotton goods, provisions, timber and cement; the exports gum, raw cotton, ivory, sesame, durra, senna, coffee (from Abyssinia), goat skins, &c. Forty miles north of Port Sudan is Mahommed Gul, the port for the mines of Gebet, worked by an English company.
She reached Port Sudan on 14th December where she was made seaworthy.
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