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Longshoremen on a New York dock load barrels of corn syrup onto a barge on the Hudson River. Photograph by Lewis Hine, c. 1912.
Dockers load bagged cargo – MS Rothenstein (North German Lloyd), Port Sudan, 1960

A dockworker (also called a longshoreman, stevedore, or docker) is a waterfront manual laborer who is involved in loading and unloading ships.[1]

After the intermodal shipping container revolution of the 1960s, the required dockworkers declined by over 90%.[2]

  1. ^ "Dockworker". Dictionary.com. Retrieved August 27, 2023.
  2. ^ Khan, Khalil U. (15 September 2014). "Stevedoring & The Role of Stevedores in Shipping". The International Institute of Marine Surveying (IIMS). Retrieved 7 April 2021.

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