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A loading dock or loading bay is an area of a building where goods vehicles (usually road or rail) are loaded and unloaded. They are commonly found on commercial and industrial buildings, and warehouses in particular. Loading docks may be exterior, flush with the building envelope, or fully enclosed.
A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform. Dry docks are used for the construction, maintenance, and repair of ships, boats, and other watercraft.
A missing man table, also known as a fallen comrade table, [1] is a ceremony and memorial that is set up in military dining facilities of the United States Armed Forces and during official dining functions, in honor of fallen, missing, or imprisoned military service members. [2] The table serves as the focal point of ceremonial remembrance, originally growing out of US concern of the Vietnam ...
With those pieces in place, the partners found themselves able to curate the complete dock-to-table experience. It's the same locally-owned production chain bringing seafood to Cape Quality's ...
A dock plate is form of portable bridge used to both span the gap and adjust for elevation differences between a truck bed and a loading dock or warehouse floor. [1] Other devices used to achieve the same ends include dock boards, and electric and pneumatic dock levelers and lifts. [2] [3] These various devices differ in construction ...
The docks did not receive a name and were known as "Admiralty Floating Dock" with a number. In size they went up to ones capable of lifting the largest Royal Navy battleships .
Willemsoord Dry Dock I is a historic dry dock in Willemsoord, Den Helder, Netherlands. It was constructed from 1813 till 1822, under the direction of Jan Blanken, and was part of the former Rijkswerf Willemsoord.
Market overhang [1] is a term derived from the physical world meaning things that stick out or hang over another thing. Often from the viewpoint of standing beneath an 'overhang' there is shade provided by a protrusion from the adjacent vertical domain, such as a tree or building. In marketing, overhanging the market relates to the business ...
One of the first ships to be launched at the yard was Termagent in 1852. [1] The company changed its name to Smith's Dock Co. in 1891. [1] The company became associated with South Bank, North Riding of Yorkshire, after opening an operation there in 1907. [3] Smith's Dock increasingly concentrated its shipbuilding business on the River Tees in ...
Seaforth Dock (also known as the Royal Seaforth Dock) is a purpose-built dock and container terminal, on the River Mersey, England, at Seaforth, to the north of Liverpool. [4] As part of the Port of Liverpool and Liverpool Freeport, it is operated by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company. Situated at the northern end of the dock system, it is ...