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    Dockworker (redirect from Stevedoring)
    A dockworker (also called a longshoreman, stevedore, or docker) is a waterfront manual laborer who loads and unloads ships. As a result of the intermodal...
    18 KB (2,056 words) - 04:19, 28 July 2024
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    The stevedore knot is a stopper knot, often tied near the end of a rope. It is more bulky and less prone to jamming than the closely related figure-eight...
    3 KB (333 words) - 07:11, 4 June 2024
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    Stevedore operations were established by the United States Army to provide movement of supplies through ports in support of the American Expeditionary...
    18 KB (1,921 words) - 18:22, 26 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stevedore knot (mathematics)
    theory, the stevedore knot is one of three prime knots with crossing number six, the others being the 62 knot and the 63 knot. The stevedore knot is listed...
    3 KB (274 words) - 13:06, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Patrick Stevedores Operations No 2 Pty Ltd v Maritime Union of Australia
    Australian waterfront dispute, in which a major stevedoring operation, the Patrick group of companies, sought to replace its largely unionised workforce with...
    4 KB (342 words) - 00:34, 3 January 2024
  • its second season, introducing many new characters to the cast, which include the working stevedores and their families as well as the criminal organization...
    15 KB (1,831 words) - 14:24, 14 July 2023
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    young Kennedy left school to help support his mother and three older sisters, Mary, Joanna, and Margaret, as a stevedore on the Boston docks. In the...
    12 KB (1,062 words) - 20:21, 26 August 2024
  • American Stevedore. Big Roy: Long-haired young Stevedore at Delores' bar. Johnny "Fifty" Spamanto: Young Baltimore port checker and friend to Nick and...
    14 KB (1,243 words) - 16:05, 5 April 2024
  • operating as both a shipping line and stevedore, gradually expanding interstate. The shipping operations were sold to Howard Smith Limited. Patrick was one...
    9 KB (652 words) - 13:18, 24 January 2024
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    and general cargo. It was launched in 2006 as a subsidiary of Russian stevedoring holding DeloPorts. The terminal “Kombinat Stroikomplekt” (since April...
    12 KB (1,083 words) - 17:34, 2 August 2023
  • Incoterms (redirect from Carriage Paid To)
    commercial terms published by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) relating to international commercial law. Incoterms define the responsibilities of exporters...
    39 KB (4,503 words) - 14:38, 4 September 2024
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    actor Bartolomeo Pagano's cinema career, he was a camallo, which means stevedore, at the port of Genoa. His cinema career began with the film Cabiria,...
    135 KB (15,076 words) - 21:09, 2 September 2024
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    larger, stronger, and equally secure. — The Ashley Book of Knots The stevedore knot is an extension of simple figure-eight knot with an additional turn...
    6 KB (704 words) - 09:10, 3 August 2024
  • many of the stevedores, including Frank Sobotka, though she was kept out of the loop regarding major criminal activities within the stevedore's union because...
    8 KB (1,135 words) - 19:57, 4 July 2023
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    the ability of such party to perform its obligations. Any result of the usual and natural consequences of external forces. To illuminate this distinction...
    21 KB (2,810 words) - 09:35, 21 August 2024
  • to Himalaya clauses relate to maritime matters, and exclusion clauses in bills of lading for the benefit of employees, crew, and agents, stevedores in...
    8 KB (1,265 words) - 00:30, 15 December 2022
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    active until 1958, when Hofmann retired from teaching. On January 8, 1947, stevedore Andy Hintz was fatally shot by hitmen John M. Dunn, Andrew Sheridan, and...
    152 KB (16,065 words) - 11:40, 2 September 2024
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    contractors dressed as stevedores and port personnel, who were able to work in the engine rooms and below deck. The work had to be clandestine to avoid arousing...
    208 KB (24,796 words) - 11:40, 4 September 2024
  • the FBI raids the stevedores union. Reese delays taking the captives outside until the press arrives. The Greek's associates refuse to talk under questioning...
    13 KB (1,187 words) - 16:05, 5 April 2024
  • Eric Mason (died 7 June 2010) was a British actor. Originally a stevedore working at Surrey Docks, he sustained a back injury in a road accident and end...
    3 KB (155 words) - 05:55, 3 August 2024
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