Cabotage, used as a legal term, here refers to the right to transport goods or passengers between ports of a country.
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 .
Cabotage traffic may be carried by a foreign carrier on special permission of the civil aeronautics authorities .