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'''Port Extranjero''' is a seaport managed by the Port Extranjero Authority, a [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] public-private partnership. It occupies 7,500 acres (3,000 ha) of land and water with 43 miles (69 km) of waterfront. The port's channel depth is  16 m (53 feet). The port has 25 cargo terminals, 82 container cranes, 8 container terminals, and 182 km (113 miles) of on-dock rail.  Promoted as the "Gateway to the [[Cusinaut]]", the port is located in Verduras Bay, approximately 22.5 km (14 miles) west of downtown Extranjero. The port was initially opened on December 9, [[1926]], after 3 years of construction. The land the port is built on was given to [[Burgundie]] under the provisions of the Treaty of Foxhey, in [[1923]] which exchanged the land to [[Burgundie]] in exchange for security guarantees and protection for [[Canespa]]. Since that time the port has expanded and reconfigured numerous times to make the maximum advantage of the land grant and has been used as the primary point of departure for most of the exports leaving [[Canespa]]. The port's top imports were X, Y, Z. In [[2032]], the port's top exports were potatoes, grain, flour, cereals, pet and animal feed, and soybeans. In [[2030]] the port's top three trading partners were [[Burgundie]], X, and Y.  

== History ==

Port Extranjero's formative years, from its inauguration in [[1926]] to the mid-20th century, were marked by incremental developments. Established on December 9, [[1926]], under the provisions of the Treaty of Foxhey, the port rapidly asserted its role as a vital link in the burgeoning trade relations between [[Burgundie]] and [[Canespa]]. The initial decades saw the port becoming a linchpin for [[Canespa]]'s export marketing efforts, now that it finally had access to the modern infrastructure to export its goods to a global market that was exploding as the recovery from the devastation of the [[First Great War]] was finalized. It was also a period that saw a large global trend away from rural farming life towards urban life as the mechanization of industries and injection of government funding during the [[First Great War]] spurred a marked uptick in manufacturing worldwide. This left a general deficit in food production to consumption that [[Canespa]] was uniquely positioned to take advantage of. As the 1920s turned into the 1930s Port Extranjero set about its first port expansion building large warehouses that took advantage of burgeoning air conditioning technologies that, when paired with a growing fleet of [[Merchant Marine of Burgundie]] {{wp|reefer ship}}s meant that [[Burgundie]] was able to move [[Canespa]]n goods across the entire globe and to store produce and wait for better offers as opposed to taking offers as they came to reduce spoilage. In [[1929]] a rail link from the regular freight rail network of [[Canespa]] was made to the port facility, increasing output exponentially. During this time [[Canespa]] and [[Burgundie]] were making money faster then they could spend it. In the early 1930s, a massive expansion of the port was undertaken with the construction of a breakwater three miles out and over two miles in length. In addition to the construction of this outer breakwater, an inner breakwater was built off the western shore with docks for seagoing ships and smaller docks for local commerce. In [[1934]], Port Extranjero was regarded by many as one of the top 5 most advanced ports in the world.

===Mid-century===

{{Further|Second Great War}}

===Operation Kipling and Containerization===

In [[2002]], the port authority, together with [[O'Shea Infrastructure and Design]], [[Estia-Odoneru Gypsum, Salt, and Aggregate]], [[Lansing Lines]], [[Canespa]]n infrstructure company(ies), embarked on a massive automation project that was completed in [[2027]]. The port was optimized for automated gantry cranes, larger deeper draft ships, and a small naval base and naval air station was added to the footprint for a limited [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] taskforce presence. Now the port operates with high levels of efficiency and is directly linked the just-in-time logistics networks in both [[Burgundie]] and [[Canespa]].

== Other uses ==

The Remulon Modular Nuclear Reactor (RMNR) was completed in Port Extranjero in [[2027]] to make the entire port energy self-sufficient. The Remulon is a {{wp|Generation_IV_reactor#Sodium-cooled_fast_reactor_(SFR)|Gen IV Sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR)}} that produces up to 125MW. The Port consumes, approximately 1,500,000 MWh annually, the delta of 495,000MWh is supplied via transmission lines from [[Canespa]]. During the construction phase of the Remulon reactor, [[List of powerships of the Navy of Burgundie#Classes|la Titanique]], a [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] [[Navy of Burgundie|naval]] {{wp|powership}} was brought in to serve as a temporary powerplant to both test the concept of a nuclear powerplant on the premise of the port grounds and to also develop and test grid load capacity and to develop new grid requirements. [[List of powerships of the Navy of Burgundie#Classes|La Titanique]] provided a constant 65MW from [[2018]]-[[2027]] when it was slowly turned off as the new Remulon reactor was warmed up, so as not to overload the grid and to also maintain port operations, unimpeded.

Prior to the Remulon Reactor project the port was mostly powered through power from [[Canespa]] as well as a small natural gas plant that was opened in [[1984]]. Prior to that a coal plant powered critical facilities on the port from its opening until the natural gas plant opened in the 80s.