Dockworker

Longshoremen on a New York dock load barrels onto a barge on the Hudson River. Photograph by Lewis Hine, c. 1912.
Dockers load bagged cargo onto a barge in Port Sudan, 1960
Dockworker
Occupation
SynonymsStevedore
Activity sectors
Shipping

A dockworker (also called a docker, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore, wharfman or wharfie) is a waterfront manual laborer who loads and unloads ships.

As a result of the intermodal shipping container revolution, the required number of dockworkers has declined by over 90% since the 1960s.

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