dock workers
Ship cargo handlers
Dock workers are laborers who load and unload cargo from ships at ports and harbors.
The work involves moving freight between vessels and shore—handling containers, operating cranes, securing loads.
Also called longshoremen (American) or stevedores: The dock workers went on strike over safety conditions.
- portersThose who carry baggage
- cargoTransported goods
- cargo shipVessel for transporting goods
- loadCarried weight or burden
- unionJoining into one
work gang · freight handlers · wharf · collective bargaining · labor strike · attendant · quay · cargo handlers · forklift · hook · port authority · picket line · transshipment · customs inspections · harbor master · laborer · swing shift · waterfront
- warehousingwarehouse, warehouses, fulfillment centers, fulfillment center, distribution centers
- dockworkersdockhands, cargo handlers, freight handlers, crane operators, foremen
- maritimeships, ship, boat, boats, anchors
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- Industrial Imagerymachinery, factories, smokestacks, assembly lines, gears
- Maritime Industryshipping lines, container ships, merchant ships, steamships, merchant marine
dock workerssailors
Maritime vessel crew members
seamen · mariners · ship crews · seafarers · merchant mariners
dock workersfactory workers
Employees in manufacturing facilities
retail workers · consumers · manufacturers · producers · end users