Guanta is connected by twenty-four miles of railroad with the coal mines of Naricuse and furnishes fuel for coastwise vessels.
Except for a small coastwise trade with Puerto Cabello, the port enjoys little commercial activity.
Coastwise vessels of light tonnage are constructed here and repairs of an extensive nature may be made.
Traffic is almost entirely of a coastwise nature with La Guaira.
However, the Minister of Finance has recommended the installation of bonded warehouses at some port centrally located on the coast mainly for the better accommodation of coastwise trade.
For the most part, their commerce is entirely coastwise and is carried on principally in small sailing vessels.
It will, of course, not be overlooked, that in the great coastwise trade which the Pacific States have and must always have with each other, they will minister to each other's prosperity.
He boldly claimed that the right to regulate commerce granted as fully the power to construct roads and canals for the benefit of circulation and trade in the interior as it did the power to promote coastwise traffic.
This, however, inadequately represents the value of the exports from these two cotton states, because a large fraction of the cotton was carried by the coastwise trade to northern ports and appeared in their shipments.
No returns are given for the coastwise and internal trade of either State, but the tables of the railway and canal transportation of both States show nearly the same proportion in favor of New York as in the foreign trade.
These vessels act in combination with the larger ones of the fleet with which they connect, and in addition maintain a coastwise service.
To make the trade coastwise for Cuba, as we have already done in the case of Puerto Rico, means ultimate annexation.
Coastwise steamers are not included in these figures.
It is three miles in the interior from its seaport, Casilda, though coastwise vessels of light draft can approach it by the river Guaurabo.
The coastwise carrying trade is also important, the bulk being shared about equally by Sunderland, Newcastle, South Shields and Cardiff, while Liverpool has also a large share.
No returns are given for thecoastwise and internal trade of either State; but the railway and canal transportation of both States shows a difference of ten to one in favor of Pennsylvania.
The coastwise and internal trade are not given, as recommended by me when Secretary of the Treasury, but the tables of the railroad traffic indicate in part the immense superiority of Massachusetts.
No returns are given for the coastwise and internal trade of either State, but the tables of the railway and canal transportation of States show nearly the same proportion in favor of New York as in the foreign trade.
All meantime were loudly lamenting the falling off in Irish shipping, coastwise and foreign as well, which was all part and parcel of the same thing.
I've got an option on the Unicorn for three days on a sixty-day charter, running coastwise with general cargo, with the privilege of renewing for four years at the same rate.
I don't know any owners except your father and I've never had any coastwise experience.
They're so big it's next to impossible to keep them running coastwisein the lumber trade during a dull period, and they're not big enough for the foreign trade.
I had no idea Cappy Ricks contemplated selling her, though it has been common talk on the street that he made a mistake in building such a big boat as the Tillicum for the coastwise lumber trade.
A dog-barking navigator is a coastwise blockhead that gets lost if he loses sight of land.
Velasco adds: The Ceris subsist on fish, the seeds of grass, andcoastwise shrubs, as well as on the flesh of horses and deer, which they kill.
Padre Salvatierra observed the distinctive character of the Seri tongue, but made no extended exploration of Seriland, either coastwise or interior.
Immediately, I think we should take all the coastwise ships, or the larger portion of them.
Nothing of any outstanding character appears along those coastwise paths, which are long and obscure.
Even on the shocking coastwise bye-roads, apt often to be mere cascades of loose stones, and full of sharp turns, it is often better to have a cycle than to be without one.
He was a mighty builder of coastwise batteries against possible invasion; not only ordaining the building of them, but travelling much to see that they were built upon the most effective situations.
And then, having explored the peninsula, the way out to the coast line on to Looe is up again to Tregantle, whence a coastwise road leads past Crafthole and Portwrinkle to Downderry.
Killigrew thereupon began and soon completed his lighthouse, much to the anger of the coastwise people.
Grimly enough, Fate took him at his word, flung him suddenly into eternity, the rushing of the wind his only requiem, the coastwise lights and the morning star the only watchers of his end.
In any event it was not until June, 1918, that a coastwise schooner captain was both surprised and indignant when a shot from a craft which he took to be an American submarine went across his bows.
At this writing the coastwise marauder, or marauders, are still off our shores, and clouds of navy craft are seeking to destroy them.
Steamship companies engaged in interstate commerce and protected in our coastwise trade should be held to a strict observance of the interstate commerce act.
The coastwise shipping laws should be amended to meet the special needs of the islands, and the alien contract labor law should be so modified in its application to Hawaii as to enable American and European labor to be brought thither.
After this engagement, as the season progressed, coastwise operations in this quarter became increasingly hazardous for both parties.
The prosecution of these various enterprises was attended with the usual amount of scuffling encounter, which associates itself naturally with coastwise warfare of a guerilla character.
The extremes of the Middle section of the country were thus comparatively independent of coastwise traffic for mutual intercourse, and the character of their coasts co-operated to reduce the disposition to employ coasters in war.
The southern waters abounded indeed in internal coastwise communications; not consecutive throughout, but continuous for long reaches along the shores of North and South Carolina and Georgia.
As it was, up to that late period the routine methods of their European experience prevailed, with the result that their coastwise operations in the south differed little from those in the extreme north.
The exposure of the coasting trade from Boston Bay eastward was increased by the absence of interior coastwise channels, until the chain of islands about and beyond the Penobscot was reached.
It was impossible to impose the same strict prescription upon the coastwise trade, by which chiefly the indispensable continuous intercourse between the several parts of the United Kingdom was maintained.
The seeds of it were scattered on hot, dry, still days by pipe and cigarette, by sparks from donkey engines, by untended camp fires, wherever the careless white man went in the great coastwise forests.
They took their chances in the path of coastwise traffic, straining their eyes for vessels to leap suddenly out of the thickness that shut them in, their ears for fog signals that blared warning.
So we have endeavored to compete with these new motors on the sea by means of wooden sailing ships and paddle steamers, until they are of service only in our coastwise monopoly or rotting at the docks, if not broken up.
India business, is built for our coastwise trade or for some line that had been subsidized.
Shortly after the episode of the lion hunt, D'Arnot succeeded in chartering an ancient tub for the coastwisetrip to Tarzan's land-locked harbor.
If the owners of railroad lines and coastwise ship owners do not make money in the Philippines, it will not be because they do not charge enough.
Coastwise shipping, both in New Zealand and in Australia, is conducted on a similar basis to that of the United States.
Sailors and firemen employed on coastwise ships are paid double the wages of sailors on oversea ships, the same as paid sailors employed on American ships--$40 and $45 a month.
Here, lying at anchor in the ten square miles of water, were five battleships, several large ocean steamers, many coastwise vessels and a multitude of smaller craft whose yearly tonnage is twenty to thirty millions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coastwise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
