lighterage
lightering

Between 1967 and 1976 over 40 lighterage firms closed down.

Still, lack of lighterage kept the unloading moving slowly for the balance of the day.

Thus, with no lighterage, Warrick did not start unloading her own cargo until the following day.

Significant progress has already been made, particularly in terms of having more standardized dimensions and maximum lighterage for vehicles and their trailers.

Infrastructure capable of facilitating alongside berthing helps customers reduce cost which is associated with lighterage operations.

In the contract was the "London lighterage clause" which exempted warehousemen from liability due to their negligence.

Although the Company had disposed of its lighterage fleet, it retained craft to undertake its dredging activities.

From 1916-1923, Gill ran a lighterage service under contract with the Alaskan Engineering Commission.

The shallowness of the harbour necessitated lighterage and repeated loading of cargoes.

The men working with him then walked out and demanded that the firm concerned, the Mercantile Lighterage Company, should order him to join.

The Company was formed in 1922 as The General Lighterage Co Ltd.

It owns transhipment assets to provide lighterage support services, onshore & offshore logistics services.

Windows were blown out of the nearby Arctic Lighterage Company building, and light fixtures were knocked to the floor.

He has certainly organized the lighterage service of the harbour for the O.S.N. Company with great ability.

Of these, the one at Karwar is the only all-weather port while the rest are riverine fair-weather lighterage ports.

She was stricken from the Navy List on 6 January 1919 and returned to Johnson Lighterage the same day.

In 1931, she was re-sold to the Victorian Lighterage Co and was renamed Sidney.

In the book, Fagan mentions the exploitative nature of lighterage and expresses his disdain for what he called a "free-for-all capitalist system".

Such intervention could include disabling fire against the vessel or equipment being used to offload ("lighterage") it, or boarding the vessel.

San Miguel Shipping & Lighterage Corp.

Navlakhi Port is an all-weather lighterage non-major intermediate Port.

Tanker and Bulk carrier lighterage operations take place at deepwater anchorage as nominated by the Port Officer.

In 1896, Traffic was sold to the Liverpool Lighterage Co., where she served for fifty-nine years in reliable service.

Mr. Dwyer was vice president of Dwyer Lighterage when he retired in the early 1970's.

This was the boom time for Lighterage and fortunes were made by the captains of the distinctive red sailed Thames sailing barges at this time.

On the other end of the journey, they often pump their cargo off to smaller tankers at designated lightering points off-coast.

This "lightering" is not only expensive, but the transferring of fuel from tanker to barge also increases the chances of a spill or accident in the harbor.