The word "wharves" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a place on a shoreline, breakwater, or riverbank where ships can moor or unload cargo. The word is a plural noun and can be used in a sentence such as: "The bustling city was alive with activity at the wharves, as ships loaded and unloaded cargo from around the world."
In 2003, 21 year old fisherman Mansur La Ibu died in detention, onboard his own boat strung up to wharves in Darwin harbour.
The air war, he says, will continue for several years.In his bid to create freer transport markets, Mr Corrigan still faces the same obstacle that took him to war on the wharves: the country's failure to deregulate its labour market the way it has reformed other parts of its economy.
From the 15th to 17th centuries, its counting houses, guildhall and wharves echoed to a babble of Germanic languages.
Colombo's harbour has tripled in size, though most of its wharves stand empty.
In Majuro, the capital, wharves and warehouses line the lagoon, and even the taxis have air conditioning.
A 1995 survey by Australia's Bureau of Industry Economics found that Australia's wharves moved fewer than 18 containers an hour, compared with 30 an hour in the most efficient docks abroad.In the 1980s, the former Labor government managed to cut the waterfront workforce from about 8,000 to 3,000; but its political links with the union movement held it back from wholesale reform.
Nothing perks up a regeneration project like a waterfront view and, conversely, few things are as redolent of urban blight as a rubbish-strewn canal or a run-down docks.Waterside developments are often most successful where the area has fine old warehouses, or distinctive pieces of industrial archaeology, such as wharves, railway tracks or cobblestones.
HERMAN MELVILLE, an American writer, once compared the vast wharves of the port of Liverpool to the Great Wall of China and the pyramids of Egypt.
The union's anger reached boiling-point on February 3rd after Chris Corrigan, chairman of Patrick, disclosed that his company had supported a plan in the United Arab Emirates in December to train non-union men to work on Australian wharves.
Amid the ancient meat, fish and produce markets, the wharves and the warehouses, moneymen began meeting in coffee houses to discuss business and stocks.In the west rich landowners carved out the squares and tree-lined streets of Mayfair.
The first, "Sea of Poppies", set a year earlier, conjured up the dust-baked heat of the north Indian plains, awash with the violent red billows of Papaver somniferum, the British opium factories and the wharves of the silty Hooghly River from where the sticky, addictive stuff, packed inside clay balls the size of cannon shot—"foreign mud" in Chinese eyes flowed to the Celestial Kingdom.
