Lighterage

Quick meaning: Lighterage is a noun meaning The fee paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter (flat-bottomed boat for carrying heavy loads across short distances).

Meaning

The fee paid for conveyance of goods on a lighter (flat-bottomed boat for carrying heavy loads across short distances).

More Meanings

1. The act of unloading into a lighter, or of conveying by a lighter.

Example Sentences

If Goods are to be brought Home to your own House, there are Charges for Weighage, Cranage, Porterage, Wharfage, Cartage, Lighterage, &c.

1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Part 3, Chapter 1, p. 355, He has certainly organized the lighterage service of the harbor for the O.S.N. Company with great ability.

Moreover, as the traffic would be mainly morning and evening rush-hour services, at other times of the day much lighterage across the river could be saved by using part of the new terminus for freight trafic.

Word Forms

• lighterages

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include jettage, livery, keelage, laytime, respondentia, hireage.

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