demurrage

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Follow up on outstanding monies - demurrage, short payments from import and export customers

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  1. noun Detention of a ship, freight car, or other cargo conveyance during loading or unloading beyond the scheduled time of departure.
  2. noun Compensation paid for such detention.

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  • Follow up on outstanding monies - demurrage, short payments from import and export customers —  the Marketing community of South Africa
  • I have recently paid all demurrage, storage charges and the shipment fee, all you need to do is to help me contact the security company and introduce yourself as my business foreign partner, requesting the shipment of the box. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • According to Mr. Olawore, the cost of Jet Fuel is determined by both internal and external factors such as cost of freighting, demurrage, landing cost, NPA charges, storage charges, foreign exchange cost and interest rate, all these have the capacity of impacting on the pricing of Aviation Fuel. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
  • Formerly, before demurrage was introduced, carriages were frequently detained on lines to which they did not belong, for weeks, and even months, until sometimes they were lost sight of altogether Once a month the balances are struck, and the various railways, instead of having to pay enormous sums to each other, obtain settlement by means of comparatively small balances For example, the London and North-Western railway sends its through passengers over the Caledonian line. —  The Iron Horse
  • The factory estimate the loss to the Company, including port charges, demurrage, and factory charges allowed the captain, at sixty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-three dollars, or about twenty thousand pounds sterling That the Company's factory at China, after stating the foregoing facts to the Court of Directors, conclude with the following general observation thereon. —  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
 

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  1. Formerly demor-age; from Old French demorage, demourage, demoraige, from de-morer, delay: see demur and -age.
 

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