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Alternative term: Jetty
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Note: 1 A pier or jetty providing cargo-handling facilities may also be called a wharf.
Note 1: A pier or jetty providing cargo-handling facilities may also be called a wharf.




Note: 2 In French the term mole is also sometimes used in place of the term "brise-lames", for a breakwater (1-2-250) when it protects the entrance of a harbour.
Note 2: In French the term mole is also sometimes used in place of the term "brise-lames", for a breakwater (1-2-250) when it protects the entrance of a harbour.


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Alternative term: Jetty

A structure extending into the water approximately perpendicular to a shore or a bank and providing berthing for ships, and which may also provide cargo-handling facilities.


Note 1: A pier or jetty providing cargo-handling facilities may also be called a wharf.


Note 2: In French the term mole is also sometimes used in place of the term "brise-lames", for a breakwater (1-2-250) when it protects the entrance of a harbour.




Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)