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  • n  a fee charged for the use of a wharf or quay
  • n  a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats

  • The port itself will be "internationalized," and the Italians agree to sell or rent Tito as many docks and wharfage areas as he has money to pay for.
  • Ashore they sent seamen, marines and engineers to construct breastworks and gun emplacements for the soldiers to fall back on, and demolition parties to blow up wharfage and fuel .
  • Hansen has cut unloading time in half, increased wharfage space threefold, and imported barges from the Philippines for offshore loading.

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