cabotage

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from French cabotage (“coasting trade”), from caboter (“to travel by the coast”). It originally (16th c.) referred to restrictions allowing only French ships to trade or transport between French ports. Other countries adopted this concept and extended it to land and air travel.

1. The transport of goods or passengers between two points in the same country.

   “Cabotage traffic may be carried by a foreign carrier on special permission of the civil aeronautics authorities […].”

2. The right to engage in such transport.

   “Cabotage, used as a legal term, here refers to the right to transport goods or passengers between ports of a country.”

3. The exclusive right of a country to control such transport.

   “Professor Levine distinguishes two kinds of cabotage: "primary cabotage" which can be compared with ninth freedom cabotages and "long-haul limited cabotage" which can be compared with eighth freedom cabotage […].”