An outport is any port considered secondary to a main port (including a provincial one as opposed to a capital one), and often (especially) a small port built to support the commercial operations of a large port.
[1] The Port of Tilbury from the Port of London is a good example.
Avonmouth for Bristol and, on a smaller and now historical scale, Fordwich for Canterbury are others.
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