porterage

As nouns the difference between handling and porterage

is that handling is a touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc, with the hand or hands, or as with the hands while porterage is the transportation of goods by a porter.

As a verb handling

is .

As a noun porterage

is the transportation of goods by a porter.

As an adjective undefined is

lacking a definition or value.

As nouns the difference between portage and porterage

is that portage is an act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways while porterage is the transportation of goods by a porter.

As a verb portage

is to carry a boat overland.

Boatage is a coordinate term of porterage.

As nouns the difference between porterage and boatage

is that porterage is the transportation of goods by a porter while boatage is the total capacity of boats, as of lifeboats on a ship.