Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

cabotage

Int'l law. 1. The carrying on of trade along a country's coast; the transport of goods or passengers from one port or place to another in the same country. 0 The privilege to carry on this trade is usu. limited to vessels flying the flag of that country. 2. The privilege of carrying traffic between two port in the same country. 3. The right of a forei,.m airline to carry passengers and cargo between airports in the same country."Cabotage meant originally navigation and trade along the same stretch of coaxt hetween the l-ts thereof, ,. coast belonging to one and the same State. However. t 1r,, term cabotage or coasting trade as used in commeniaa, treaties comprises now sea trade between any twr, parts of the same country, whether on the same coat- different coasts, provided always that the different coat: are all of them the coasts of one and the same corantrt as a political and geographical unit in contra-distinction t,, the coasts of colonies or dominions of such countries. t F.L. Oppenheim, International Law 493 (llersch Lauter ed., 8th ed. 1955).