0 the job of carrying things for other people, especially at railway stations, airports, etc., or the money that is paid for this:
Local populations felt the impact of the colonial administration mainly in terms of the extraction of produce taxes and labour for porterage and military purposes.
In turn, access to these sources of labour made porterage possible.
Apart from tax payments and porterage, the most common links between local communities and the wider society were the courts of law.
Explanations for the eventual decline of up-country traders and porterage must therefore be sought through analysis of change in the early colonial political economy.
It should be noted that long-distance porterage was a specific kind of migrant labour, with important differences from the more familiar migrant labour systems of the colonial period.
Their costs, including rent and rates, security, maintenance, gas and electricity, cleaning, health and safety, and porterage are tabulated below.
By human porterage they made good a lot of the transport they lacked.
In addition, there are dock dues, quay porterage, landing and carriage charges to final address.
