The wholesalers generally pay most of the unloading charges.

The unloading charges for handling ore used to be a meagre 27 paise per tonne.

Carlo had finally broken down the ship's skipper, some dumbutt spic from Brownsville, Texas, who thought the unloading charges too high.

The state government unified the loading and unloading charges in the state after reviewing and revising the prevailing charges.

A scheme was launched allowing the advance remittance of loading/unloading charges through State Bank of Travancore branches.

But Robert Smith, the president of the Arrow Sea Foods Company in the market, estimated that unloading charges account for about 1 percent of the merchants' overhead, and said that the new price scale would not lead to decreases for dealers or customers.