0 a solid, usually stone, landing place, where boats are loaded and unloaded -- kaj
The boat is moored at the quay.
Next, the car's front doors are pulled open, two or more persons jump hurriedly inside and drive the car off with spinning wheels from the quay.
So, the nonproduction or unavailability cost of complex systems such as quay crane (indirect cost) is also important even more than the repairing cost (direct cost).
Canals and buildings form urban pattern with townhouses on islands surrounded by water rather than treated as houses on a quay or villas behind a coastline.
Indeed, ships prefer to move to another quay, even to another harbor, rather than to wait in the quay if the quay crane is not instantaneously operational.
Items commonly placed under ' other purposes ' ranged widely and included parks and pleasure grounds, cemeteries, artisans' dwelling improvement schemes, public lighting, fire brigades, slaughterhouses and piers, docks and quays.
A variety of public spaces were used: streets, courts, alleys, squares, quays.
On the waterfront, a 25 m wide quay promenade, a road and a sidewalk and arches containing various shops would be built.
From the eleventh century onwards the owners of the quays progressively extended them into the river, by more than 100 metres in the busiest neighbourhood.
