receiving dock
Shipment intake area
A receiving dock is the designated area at a warehouse, factory, or store where incoming shipments are unloaded and processed.
Trucks back up to the dock, goods are offloaded, checked against invoices, and moved into storage or production.
Large facilities may have separate receiving and shipping docks: The delivery driver pulled into the receiving dock at 6 AM.
- loadingAdding weight or cargo
- loading bayTruck delivery platform
- unloadingRemoving contents from carrier
- warehouseBulk goods storage building
- back of houseNon-public restaurant operations
forklift · pallets · freight · shipment · truck · bay · platform · cargo · delivery · bill of lading · inventory · crates · dolly · manifest · boxes · ramp · logistics · storage
- factoryfactory, assembly plant, assembly line, conveyor belt, production floor
- factory floorassembly line, conveyor belt, forklift, machine operator, production line
- industrial sitesfactory floor, oil refinery, factories, petrochemical plants, plants
- freight yardsrail yard, marshalling yard, container yard, yard, freight car
- loading docksloading bay, loading zone, loading ramp, loading platform
- logisticsshipping, delivery, warehouses, warehousing, shipment
receiving dockshipping dock
Waterside freight platform
shipping bay · loading dock · shipping department · point of origin
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