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

Sailing-vessels still take the Cape route, because the heavy towage tolls through the canal more than offset the gain in time.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)

Useless to pay towage with a favoring wind and flowing tide.

From Doubloons—and the Girl by Forbes, John Maxwell

He was sure to get his own extortionate terms out of me for towage whether he frowned or smiled.

From Falk A Reminiscence by Conrad, Joseph

This was of course agreed to, and the towage resumed.

From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.