tonnage fee (stowage)

A fee payable to the habour master’s office after freighting a ship; tonnage fee is not to be confused with freighting fee. – Payment that incoming (outgoing) ships had to pay in relation to – the capacity (loading capacity, namely the ship’s space for cargo, also called load and stowage [hold of a ship; stowage factor]) or – the actual cargo, both times calculated in [Schis]Lasten (loading capacity )whereby in the course of metrification from 1869 onwards 1 load = 2,000 kilograms = 2 tons had to be paid. – See anchor money, discharge money, boarding money, ford money, harbor money, quay money, crane money, loading money, demurrage, lighthouse money, pilotage, cap money, pratica money, space money, lock money, bulky cargo money, stowage money, ton money, weighing money.

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