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Schlepper??

English translation: Tugboats/tugs


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German term or phrase:Schlepper
English translation:Tugboats/tugs
Entered by: Marie Lowrie
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23:07 Aug 4, 2003
German to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Transport / Transportation / Shipping / Shipping
German term or phrase: Schlepper??
mit der Neuordnung des Schlepptarifs stellen in Hamburg die Schlepper eigene Leinen.
Marie Lowrie
Local time: 09:55
tugboats/tugs
Explanation:
If it's related to boats.
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Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 03:55
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Summary of answers provided
4 +5tugboats/tugs
Kim Metzger
5 +1tugboat
Heike Behl, Ph.D.


  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
Schlepper
tugboats/tugs


Explanation:
If it's related to boats.


    Wrterbuch der Logistik Benz/Wessels
Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 03:55
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 511

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Trudy Peters
2 hrs

agree  jerrie
9 hrs

agree  Alison Riddell
9 hrs

agree  David Moore: "Tugs" is a little more colloquial; tugboats (to me) seems slightly old-fashioned (or perhaps "nurseryese"). And so the poor old tug-owners now have to buy their own string - sorry, tow ropes, towlines or or hawsers....
10 hrs

agree  Anna Bittner
1 day11 hrs
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
tugboat


Explanation:
;-)

It will be examined in a card index, containing all information about vessels
which haved arrived at the port of Hamburg assisted by tugboats.
www.hh.schule.de/travelship/tugboat.html

Heike Behl, Ph.D.
Local time: 01:55
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 22

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alison Riddell
9 hrs
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