Talk:Lightering

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[edit] Other types of "lightering"

This term has been used aside from oil tankers, for example in colonial America many of the seaward ports developed from the lucrative transshipment between ocean-going vessels and smaller vessels capable of navigating shallow sounds and rivers to points inland. One example I am familiar with is Portsmouth Island, North Carolina, whose economy was almost entirely based on lightering. Can we put some mention of these alternative definitions in the article?

The Barge Industry uses this term for off loading of material from a barge to adjust the draft of that barge. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.64.175.226 (talk) 14:40, 15 November 2007 (UTC)