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wharfage

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A dock; quay; or pier

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It had some 35 miles (55 km) of dock quays and as many again of riverside moorings, wharfage, shipyards, and heavy industry along the banks of the Thames from Gravesend to London Bridge.

Space is limited within the town, with most level areas devoted to wharfage, storage, rail yards, offices, and bulk-oil terminals.

Aircraft pay landing fees to use airports, and vessels pay dockage and wharfage fees to use public port facilities or lockage fees to transit locks along a waterway.

Board an abra, one of the water taxis that crisscross the creek, to get your bearings or just walk along the dhow wharfage to get a flavour of the cargo being unloaded from India, South Africa and South East Asia.

He refused -- "I'm not in the wharfage business!" -- but the ship remained.

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