Large-size ships using the anchorage of VO Chidambaranar port (formerly Tuticorin port) to unload excess cargo on to barges, need to pay a ‘lighterage' fee for such operations.

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Too big to dock at the harbor’s Deep Water Dock, the ship instead anchored out in Kachemak Bay and lightered passengers into the harbor on smaller lifeboats. Passengers were dropped off at ...