noun
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the conveyance or loading and unloading of cargo by means of a lighter
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the charge for this service
Etymology
Origin of lighterage
Example Sentences
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The freightage or lighterage charge is $5 a case and boats usually make one trip a day with fifty cases a trip.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was night, as his watch went, when Paul Davidovich started up the delta of the Kobuk River with him in a lighterage company's boat.
From The Alaskan by Curwood, James Oliver
The shallowness of the harbour necessitates lighterage and repeated loading of cargoes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
The earliest shipping-port of Glasgow was Irvine in Ayrshire, but lighterage was tedious and land carriage costly, and in 1658 the civic authorities endeavoured to purchase a site for a spacious harbour at Dumbarton.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
In addition to representing the board he was to arrange for the co-operative use of piers, warehouses, lighterage, terminals, railroads, trucking, and all other transportation facilities in and about the port.
From History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by March, Francis Andrew
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