The first small private wharves were built on the river in about 1848.

In the mid-19th century, two private wharves were built along the Berkeley waterfront.

It took the board several years to acquire the leases on private wharves.

Several of the factories and mills had private wharfs.

By the mid-1840s, with increasing trade, the wharves proved insufficient and some more private wharves were constructed.

The Act allowed for branches to extend from the main line, and for private wharves and basins.

The Southern economy had little to export, and Charleston's network of private wharves were neglected and left to ruin.

During this time the ownership of the port was shifted from individually owned private wharfs to the Sydney Harbour Trust.

A private wharf in fact is located at Salimbal Point, and cargo ships with both domestic and international routes are a common sight.

The company smelted using the Gerards own coal, then moved the coal downstream from a private wharf on the navigable brook.

Gawler awarded a tender allowing the South Australian Company to construct a private wharf, again partly to limit government expenditure.

With the governor's permission he took up residence on land bought in 1798 at Dawes Point, where he had begun to build warehouses and a private wharf.

These water taxis are not restricted by timetables or specific routes, and can also provide a service to or from private wharfs and houses on the waterfront.

There are only two short roads serving settlements at Schoolhouse Bay and South Cove, and most people have private wharves for access to their front door steps.

Along the Erie Canal within the city's North Albany neighborhood private wharves and slips were constructed for use in the lumber trade, this soon became the large and prosperous Albany Lumber District of national importance.

Today, Herring Cove's economy is dictated not so much by the fishery (although this is still active: a narrow but relatively deep natural harbour makes a fine place to shelter fishing boats, and there is a government and many private wharves), but by its proximity to the HRM's urban core.