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  2. Loading dock - Wikipedia

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    A loading dock leveler is a piece of equipment which is typically mounted to the exterior dock face or recessed into a pit at a loading dock. Commonly referred to as “bridging the gap”, a dock leveler allows for the movement of industrial vehicles (e.g. forklifts, pallet jacks) between a building and a transport vehicle.

  3. Container crane - Wikipedia

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    The operator runs the trolley over the ship to lift the cargo, usually containers. Once the spreader locks onto the container, the container is lifted, moved over the dock, and placed on a truck chassis (trailer) to be taken to the storage yard. The crane also lifts containers from chassis on the dock to load them onto the ship.

  4. Rite-Hite - Wikipedia

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    Rite-Hite Headquarters in Milwaukee. Rite-Hite was founded in 1965 by Arthur K. White, the father of Rite-Hite’s current owner and chairman, Mike White. [3] The company has about 200 employees in the Milwaukee area and about 2,200 in its 100 locations worldwide.

  5. Caisson (lock gate) - Wikipedia

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    A caisson is a form of lock gate. It consists of a large floating iron or steel box. This can be flooded to seat the caisson in the opening of the dock to close it, or pumped dry to float it and allow it to be towed clear of the dock. Graving docks at Birkenhead, closed by a variety of ship caissons and floating (sliding) caissons

  6. Jesse Hartley - Wikipedia

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    Hartley's improvements over earlier dock and warehouse design included the use of locks to keep the water at a constant level, so that loading and unloading of ships’ cargoes was not reliant on the tide and the enclosure of the dock with high boundary walls, to reduce theft.

  7. Lake freighter - Wikipedia

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    Between the raised forecastle and engine funnel at the stern was a long, unbroken deck lined with hatches spaced 24 feet (7.3 m) apart (to match the chutes of the gravity ore dock in Marquette, Michigan). [5] [6] The State Lock at the Michigan State Locks (now Soo Locks) [7]

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