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The Montreux Convention obligates Turkey to allow commercial ships freedom of passage, but allows the country to charge for some specific things, including sanitary, pilotage, towage and lighthouse services.—
Joanne Stocker,
CBS News,
1 July 2026 All locks and bridges are fully operational, as is the Port of Antwerp-Bruges towage service, which is running at 100 percent availability.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
15 Oct. 2025 The company also recently promoted Henriette Hallberg Thygesen—who previously ran Maersk’s salvage company, Svitzer—to the role of CEO of towage and manufacturing.—
Costas Paris,
WSJ,
12 Feb. 2020
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, from Middle English towen "to pull, tug, tow entry 1" + Anglo-French -age-age