Canal toll houses were built in very similar style to those on turnpikes.

The Sutherland Estate also built a fine office for the canal toll clerk.

The canal tolls were reduced as a bargaining tool, but the promoters went ahead with their bill.

Of particular concern are Panama's plans regarding canal tolls, which have deliberately been maintained at a low level under American management.

The pilot departed, cursing, swearing he would have the ship's canal toll doubled for wasting so much of his valuable time.

Revenue from canal tolls represents today a significant portion of Panama's GDP.

For the next ten years he would continue in the field of journalism while also serving as a canal toll collector in Hamilton from 1854 to 1855.

In 1912 Congress provided that United States ships engaged in domestic commerce should be exempted from canal tolls.

It was also anticipated that U.S.-flagged vessels would receive preferential treatment for canal tolls.

An original lock of the Miami and Erie Canal is located on the grounds, as is a canal toll office.

Merchant ships are rated in register tons, a measure of volume of the ship's payload capacity; this system is used for setting canal tolls and insurance rates.

But certain Government transactions, including oil and cotton exports and Suez Canal tolls, will be denominated at an official rate within 5 percent of the free-market rate.

Under the Panama Canal Act of 1912, United States vessels engaged in the coast-to-coast trade between U.S. ports were to be exempted from canal tolls.

Since the sanctions were imposed, Panama has earned another $472 million, 10 percent of the gross domestic product, from Canal tolls, mostly from foreign sources other than the United States.

A trunk deck ship is a type of merchant ship with a hull that was stepped inward in order to obtain more favourable treatment under canal toll rules then in effect.

Among other things, Panamanian officials wanted a larger share of the canal tolls, and merchants continued to be unhappy with the competition from the nonprofit commissaries in the Canal Zone.

The canal tolls reflected these improvements, but if a boat missed the tide it would have to wait in the canal basin for longer than the journey round Hoo would have taken.

Because canal tolls are expected to rise, some critics have suggested that the Suez Canal may become a viable alternative for cargo en route from Asia to the U.S. East Coast.

Canal toll rates will be subject to Cabinet approval, but the Canal Authority alone will independently determine the size of its payments to the central Government, payments that - as now - must be based on net tonnage, not revenues.

Special tolls existed for use of boat lifts, inclined planes and tunnels, but companies were not allowed to charge different tolls for special customers or over different parts of the line until 1845 (the Canal Tolls Act).

These included a fixed annuity of US$10 million, an annual contingency payment of up to US$10 million to be paid out of any commission profits, and US$0.30 per Panama Canal net ton of cargo that passed through the canal, paid out of canal tolls.

Crawshay resisted this, and the canal tolls were reduced somewhat, but the ironmasters on the east side of the Taff Valley soon built the Merthyr Tramroad, which opened in 1802 and linked their iron works to the canal at Abercynon, near the River Taff aqueduct.