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Harbour

This document defines various types of maritime infrastructure and facilities, including harbours, slipways, docks, cranes, ports, stations, sheds, and bridges used for embarking passengers and goods, building and maintaining ships, storing fuel and cargo, and administering maritime transport.

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Harbour

This document defines various types of maritime infrastructure and facilities, including harbours, slipways, docks, cranes, ports, stations, sheds, and bridges used for embarking passengers and goods, building and maintaining ships, storing fuel and cargo, and administering maritime transport.

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Harbour: installations for ships, used for embarking and disembarking of passengers and goods.

Slipway and naval dockyard: place where a ship is built and launched.
floating dock: basin surrounded by floating quays.
Marine: place fitted to receive pleasure boats.
Dry dock: place in which the hulls of boats are maintained.
Floating crane: floating apparatus used for handling goods.
Fishing port: place fitted to receive fishing boats.
Docks and depots: sheds used as warehouses.
Liner: passenger liner that travels between Europe and America.
Coaling station: place where coal is stored.
Skip canal: manmade watercourse used for maritime transport.
Canal lock: hydraulic structure whose doors hold water or let it out, according to need.
Ferry: boat used to transport vehicles from one shore to another.
Harbour station and customs house: gate of the embarkation and disembarkation piers where duties
and taxes on imported goods are paid.
Transporter container loading bridge: movable structure used for loading containers.
Transmit shed: place where goods are stored while in transit from one port to another.
Port administration offices: buildings from which the port is administered.
Jetty for oil tankers: platform where oil tankers can moor.
Reservoirs: storage container for liquids.

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