towage
Example Sentences
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The brokerage sees the merger as creating Indonesia’s largest listed towage and pilotage platform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
Here's where we collect the towage bill on the S.S.
From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Gordon Grant
Finding our speed too much diminished, by the towage of two heavily laden vessels, we cast off one of them—the Cuba—during the night and directed the prize-master to make sail, and follow us into port.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
But amongst men of his own stature, or nearly, this frank use of his advantages, in such matters as the awful towage bills for instance, caused much impotent gnashing of teeth.
From Falk A Reminiscence by Joseph Conrad
In the early era of steam, the prominent policy was to combine towage with carrying capacity by the steamer, for economical expedition.
From History of Steam on the Erie Canal by Anonymous
