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

We'll take all the cedar on your limit, in bolts on the river bank at market prices, less cost of towage to Vancouver.

From The Hidden Places by Sinclair, Bertrand W.

And when we rose not a word had been said about towage!

From Falk A Reminiscence by Conrad, Joseph

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 Semmes, Raphael

This we were told would demand the towage of the engine over the last three miles.

From Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Mahoney, Henry Charles