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intermodal container
standardized large, reusable steel box used for transporting freight
container ship
type of cargo ship
tug
thumb|upright=1.35|Tugboat CSS Teaser|CSS Teaser is captured by USS Maratanza. thumb|Justine McAllister, a tug boat in New York Harbor, January 2008 thumb|The tugboats Reid McAllister and McAllister Responder push the LPG tanker BW Volans into port at Marcus Hook on the Delaware River.
wharf
thumb|right|The Barbours Cut Terminal of the [[Port of Houston, US. This cargo shipping terminal has a single large wharf with multiple berths.]] thumb|Wharf under construction on the Upper Mississippi River|Upper Mississippi in [[Fountain City, Wisconsin]]
dock
thumb|Dock for cruise ships in Sint Maarten in the [[Caribbean]] thumb|right|Docks in Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg, Russia thumb|Partially backfilled dry dock of the former Valmet Vuosaari Shipyard in Vuosaari, [[Helsinki, Finland]]
twenty-foot equivalent unit
unit of cargo capacity, TEU
reefer ship
refrigerated cargo ship type
fireboat
thumb|right|London Fire Brigade fireboat, [[River Thames, London]] thumb|right|Toronto Fireboat WL Mackenzie thumb|right|Onboard view of Fireboat John J. Harvey in [[Tauba Auerbach dazzle camouflage performing a water pumping demonstration in Oyster Bay, New York with artificial rainbow visible]] thumb|right|Italian fireboat CLASS M thumb|right|A fireboat of the fire department of Frankfurt, Germany thumb|right|HKFS fireboat Excellence thumb|right|San Francisco fireboat Phoenix thumb|right|Deluge, retired fire fighting tug thumb|Tokyo Fire Department's Ariake fireboat thumb|The Edward M. Cotte
gantry crane
gantry crane in a shipping port loading dock
container crane
type of large dockside gantry crane
straddle carrier
freight-carrying vehicle
refrigerated container
used for intermodal cargo
reach stacker
vehicle used for handling intermodal cargo containers
twistlock and corner casting
thumb|left|Close-up of twistlock on a rear corner of a German Container chassis|semi-trailer thumb|Close up of top corner casting on an ISO shipping container. The twistlock proper is inserted through the large oval hole in the top of upper, and the bottom of the lower corner castings.
ISO 6346
international standard covering the coding, identification and marking of shipping containers
shorepower
provision of electrical power for use by a ship at berth
spreader
device used for lifting shipping containers
single-buoy mooring
offshore mooring buoy with connections for loading or unloading tankers
sidelifter
thumb|250px|A sidelifter lifting a container on site A sidelifter is a specialised vehicle or semi-trailer used to hoist and transport ISO standard intermodal containers over longer distances.
Flat rack
Shipping container with two end walls