Wharves in a sentence

In old ports such as London (which once had around 1700 wharves citation ) many old wharves have been converted to residential or office use.

Brisbane residents will soon be able to hop on a ferry at Howard Smith Wharves and be on Stradbroke Island in 40 minutes.

It was a jolt that idled much of the ship wharves.

Ten rope recycling bins will be installed at wharves throughout the region and ghost gear will be retrieved by fishers from identified hot spots areas over 159 days at sea.

Dr Makgill stated that the construction of the concrete wharves had done much to minimise the rat trouble along the waterfront, but it was still bad at Hobson street and the north shores, and very marked at Onehunga.

People are boarding up windows and doors and assembling wharves by waterfront properties to accommodate small boats.

Poison was laid on the various wharves, and the suggestion that the number of traps be increased, and more time devoted to that and the laying of poison.

The Howard Smith Wharves company said the detours would remain while the pedestrian and cycleway was resurfaced.

Other spectators would be lined shoulder to shoulder on the wooden and concrete wharves and all along the shore area.

The peal of the bells seemed to be coming from Commercial Street, maybe from one of the wharves along the nearby waterfront.

The process of upgrading Sydney’s historic – but aged – Circular Quay ferry wharves and adjacent waterfront land will soon start to accelerate.

Between these two wharves is the wharf numbered '42', used by fishermen and inter-island ferries.

Both originally referred to staithes in the sense of jetties or wharves.

In addition to the wharves and stellings that provide coastal and inland linkages, there are facilities that handle both the country's overseas and local shipping requirements.

Services and infrastructure like roads and the wharves at Tryphena and Whangaparapara are subsidised, with the island receiving about $4 in services for every $1 in rates.

The first small private wharves were built on the river in about 1848.

The limited capacity of the wharves at Durrës caused severe bottlenecks in the distribution of foreign food aid in 1991.

The natural harbour had a tendency to silt up, but the Severan changes made this worse, and the eastern wharves are extremely well preserved, since they were scarcely used.

These were the men who worked on London docks, "whipping" in baskets from ships to barges or wharves all incoming coal from the sea.

The town was also an important river port, with warehouses and wharves along the Wye later removed for the building of the A40 relief road.