shipping yards
Maritime loading areas
Shipping yards are facilities where goods are loaded, unloaded, stored, and transferred between modes of transport—typically where trucks, trains, or ships converge.
The term overlaps with freight yards and container yards.
A shipping yard handles the logistics of moving cargo: Forklifts moved pallets across the shipping yard all night.
- docksShip mooring structures
- port authorityTransportation infrastructure oversight body
- cranesLifting machines or birds
- heavy machineryLarge powered industrial apparatus
- cargoTransported goods
cargo hold · containers · harbor · vessels · freighters · high seas · loading · unloading · bill of lading · maritime · berths · stevedores · hulls · dry dock · rust bucket · tugboats · anchors · anchor chain
- freight logisticscargo trains, freight cars, customs clearance, cargo handling, containers
- Industrial Historyfactories, cotton mills, coal mines, power stations, mill ponds
- transit hubsairport, airport terminal, airports, train station, train stations
- logistics hubsdistribution centers, freight terminals, seaports, airports, fulfillment centers