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Port Harcourt (här`kərt, –kôrt), city (1991 est. pop. 362,000), SE Nigeria, a deepwater port on the Bonny River in the Niger delta. It is an industrial and commercial center where steel and aluminum products, pressed concrete, glass, tires, paint, footwear, furniture, and cigarettes are manufactured and bicycles and motor vehicles are assembled. Port Harcourt, the operational headquarters of the Nigerian petroleum industry, refines oil and pipes it mostly to Bonny Bonny , town, SE Nigeria, in the Niger River delta, on the Bight of Biafra. In the 18th and 19th cent., Bonny was the center of a powerful trading state, and in the 19th cent. it became the leading site for slave exportation in W Africa.
..... Click the link for more information. for export. Palm oil and kernels, cacao, coal, tin, and peanuts are Port Harcourt's chief exports. The city is also a rail terminus and has an airport. Port Harcourt was founded by the British in 1912 and named for Lewis, Viscount Harcourt, secretary of state for the colonies (1910–15).

Port Harcourt

a port in S Nigeria, capital of Rivers state on the Niger delta: the nation's second largest port; industrial centre. Pop.: 942 000 (2005 est.)

Port Harcourt

a city in southern Nigeria and capital of Giroro (formerly Rivers) State. Port on the Bight of Biafra. Population, 208,000 (1969). Port Harcourt has a food-processing industry that produces palm oil, tobacco goods, and flour. Other industries include metalworking, petroleum refining, and the production of cement. The center of a petroleum-producing region, Port Harcourt exports petroleum, coal, tin concentrates, and columbite, as well as oil-palm products.

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The controversial sale of the Port Harcourt and Kaduna refineries to the local Blue Star Oil Services consortium collapsed in mid-July 2007 because of objections by NNPC and powerful petroleum labour unions.

Nigeria -Failed Privatisations by APS Review Downstream Trends

a construction engineering company in Port Harcourt, was shot and wounded on Sunday by a group of about 16 armed men who wanted to kidnap him for a ransom," Idris Haruna, zonal commander of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), told AFP.

Lebanese shot in Nigeria foiled kidnap bid: official by AFP / AFP Global Edition

Bruce, who works for Global Lifting Services, was seized by two gunmen on November 27 in the Port Harcourt area.

Kidnapped Scot 'home for Xmas' by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)

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