New equipment, from dockside cranes to the containers themselves, had to be developed.

Dockside cranes would load equipment and supplies.

While being designed for roll-on roll-off operations the ships can also be loaded using dockside cranes.

THREE huge dockside cranes an eyesore to many people are being demolished.

Meanwhile, Sharpness Docks themselves became an annual security zone after the dockside cranes had been occupied by opponents of the dumping.

Their cranes were used on oil tankers, and they sold dockside cranes for the Thames Conservancy.

Cranes go: Three huge dockside cranes, regarded as an eyesore by some local residents, are being demolished at Bidston, Birkenhead.

In the fall of 1965, Sea-Land began installing dockside cranes at major port locations in the United States and Puerto Rico.

In the distance I could just make out the dockside cranes of Felixstowe, leaning against the skyline like a herd of giraffes that had just spotted a lion.

When the ship arrives the cargo is then taken from the warehouse to the quay and then lifted on board by either the ship's gear (derricks or cranes) or by the dockside cranes.

Interestingly, dockside cranes were not adopted in the Mediterranean region and the highly developed Italian ports where authorities continued to rely on the more labor-intensive method of unloading goods by ramps beyond the Middle Ages.

The hulk is long gone, but maybe a half-mile north in the gray distance, framed by dockside cranes and blocky warehouses, was a vision of the tropics - a gleaming white cruise ship, the Explorer of the Seas, that had just docked in an unlikely industrial neighborhood.

The problem was that large ocean-going ships of the type needed to transport heavy and bulky cargoes and stores needed sufficient depth of water under their keels, together with dockside cranes, to off-load their cargo and this was not available except at the already heavily-defended French harbours.

After Eteläsatama was put solely to passenger traffic, the harbour cranes and the track were dismantled in 1972.

Stationary harbour cranes are considered a new development of the Middle Ages; its earliest use being documented for Utrecht in 1244.

Cranes were used in harbors starting in the Middle Ages - see crane: harbor usage and list of historical harbour cranes.

Some harbour cranes were specialised at mounting masts to newly built sailing ships, such as in Danzig, Cologne and Bremen.

In the late-19th century, the increasing size and capacity of general harbour cranes began to overlap with the lofty but lightweight masting sheer and so their specialisation was no longer required.

Container ships that are processed at these older quays as well as quay 15 have their containers loaded and unloaded by 2 mobile harbour cranes manufactured by Gottwald Port Technology.

In the High Middle Ages, harbour cranes were introduced to load and unload ships and assist with their construction - some were built into stone towers for extra strength and stability.

Architectural landmarks are the former Siebengebirge wharf warehouses and the three Kranhaus buildings (from south to north "KranhausPLUS", "Kranhaus1" and "Pandion Vista"), allegorizing the historical harbour cranes.

APSEZ owns cargo handling equipment like mobile harbour cranes (16 nos.), grab ship unloaders (7 nos.), pay loaders, excavators and conveyor systems for handling of bulk and break-bulk cargo.