Dockworker
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A dockworker is a waterfront manual laborer who is involved in loading and unloading ships.
Longshoremen on a New York dock load barrels of corn syrup onto a barge on the Hudson River. Photograph by Lewis Hine, c. 1912.
At anchor, two barges with cranes (floating derricks) at port
A container is lifted from the deck.
Dockworkers on the containers in the ship's hatch
Containerization
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Containerization is a system of intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers. Containerization, also referred as container stuffing or container loading, is the process of unitization of cargoes in exports. Containerization is the predominant form of unitization of export cargoes, as opposed to other systems such as the barge system or palletization. The containers have standardized dimensions. They can be loaded and unloaded, stacked, transported efficiently over long distances, and transferred from one mode of transport to another—container ships, rail transport flatcars, and semi-trailer trucks—without being opened. The handling system is mechanized so that all handling is done with cranes and special forklift trucks. All containers are numbered and tracked using computerized systems.
Shipping containers at the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal in New Jersey, US
A container-goods train on the West Coast Main Line near Nuneaton, England
Double-stack Union Pacific container train crossing the desert at Shawmut, Arizona
An ocean containership close to Cuxhaven, Germany