Meaning of cabotage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The transport of goods or passengers between two points in the same country.
   countable, uncountable
2. The right to engage in such transport.
   countable, uncountable
3. The exclusive right of a country to control such transport.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Cabotage traffic may be carried by a foreign carrier on special permission of the civil aeronautics authorities […].”

“Cabotage, used as a legal term, here refers to the right to transport goods or passengers between ports of a country.”

“Professor Levine distinguishes two kinds of cabotage: "primary cabotage" which can be compared with ninth freedom cabotages and "long-haul limited cabotage" which can be compared with eighth freedom cabotage […].”

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