Terminal 'wellness' -stevedoring challenges ahead

摘要

If ports and terminals represent the vital infrastructure upon which shipping depends, cargo handling and stevedoring can be thought of as the oil that lubricates this important mechanism. Stevedoring itself has come a very long way in a comparatively short time, from the labour-intensive manhandling that was necessary to load and unload ships forty years ago to the capital intensive operations of today's specialist terminals.