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Dockage vs Wharfage - What's the difference?

dockage | wharfage |

As nouns the difference between dockage and wharfage

is that dockage is the act of docking while wharfage is a dock; quay; or pier.

dockage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (nautical) The act of docking
  • (nautical) A charge levied for docking
  • wharfage

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A dock; quay; or pier
  • A fee charged for using a wharf.
  • *1895 , John Houston Merrill, The American and English Encyclopedia of Law , p. 100.
  • *:If the owner of goods deposited at a wharf sells them, and gives notice to the wharfinger of such sale, on tendering the wharfage' then due, he is discharged from liability for future ' wharfage .
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  • Coordinate terms

    * (wharf usage fee) shorage, demurrage, cranage, tonnage, shippage