shipping docks
Vessel loading areas
Shipping docks are waterfront platforms where cargo ships load and unload goods.
The term extends to similar facilities for trucks at warehouses and distribution centers: Workers unloaded pallets at the shipping docks all morning.
The docks may refer to an entire port district: He got a job down at the docks.
- berthSleeping space on transport
- quayWaterfront loading platform
- pierWaterfront landing structure
- cargo holdVessel's storage area
- craneLifter or wader
freight handling · sea freight · mooring · bollard · longshoreman · rope · tanker · stevedoring · slipway · chain · gang plank · tugboat · loading · deck · wharf · loading bay · cargo manifest · barge
- infrastructurehighways, road construction, railway expansion, power grid, roads
- manufacturingfactories, factory, car factory, assembly plants, electronics factory
- transit hubsairport, airport terminal, airports, train station, train stations
shipping docksairport terminal
Passenger processing facility
airfield · rail yard · train station · rail terminal · freight depot
shipping docksmanufacturing plant
Facility producing goods industrially
factory floor · point of origin · warehouse · distribution center