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The Port-City University League (PUL) is an international league of universities located in major port cities around the world. [1] It was established in 2006, and the first general meeting was held in Yokohama, Japan, in 2006.
A port is a maritime commercial facility which may comprise one or more wharves where ships may dock to load and discharge passengers and cargo. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary, some ports, such as Hamburg, Manchester and Duluth, are many miles inland, with access from the sea via river or canal.
Yokohama is the second largest city in Japan by population, and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. It is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area.
As of 2018, the PUL consists of the following 17 universities from 12 countries. [2]
Alexandria University is a public university in Alexandria, Egypt. It was established in 1938 as a satellite of Fouad University, becoming an independent entity in 1942. It was known as Farouk University until the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 when its name was changed to the University of Alexandria. Taha Hussein was the founding rector of Alexandria University. It is now the second largest university in Egypt and has many affiliations to various universities for ongoing research.
Dalian University of Technology (DUT), colloquially known in Chinese as Dàgōng (大工), is a public research university located in Dalian and Panjin in Liaoning, China. Formerly called the Dalian Institute of Technology, DUT is renowned as one of the Big Four Institutes of Technology in China. It is a Chinese Ministry of Education Class A Double First Class University, and one of the national key universities administered directly under the Ministry of Education.
VNUHCM-University of Technology is a member university of Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City and is the flagship university in technology teaching and research activities in Vietnam.
