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Dockers load bagged cargo onto a barge in Port Sudan, 1960. A dockworker (also called a longshoreman, stevedore, docker, wharfman, lumper or wharfie) is a waterfront manual laborer who loads and unloads ships. [1] As a result of the intermodal shipping container revolution, the required number of dockworkers has declined by over 90% since the ...