coasting trade

American  

noun

1. trade between ports along the same coast.

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Etymology

Origin of coasting trade

First recorded in 1735–45

Example Sentences

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coasting trade

The effect, he said, on the British coasting trade was, that as the foreigner could load as far as he liked, and therefore carry larger cargoes, he could accept lower rates.

From A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River by Barlow Cumberland

I went up and down the ways of Llantrisant wondering, and came to the harbour, which is a little place, with little quays where some small coasting trade still lingers.

From The Great Return by Arthur Machen

The coasting trade of Rostof is, therefore, brisk, and particularly so since the establishment of the quarantine at Kertch.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell

The chief employment of its inhabitants is fishing; and its coasting trade is considerable, affording to the tenantry of the adjoining country a ready market for farm produce of all kinds—grazing, pastoral, and agricultural.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton

In the coasting trade the exports are mostly pig-iron, codfish and some products of local industries and agriculture.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various