Sitting in a rattling cage -- 110 feet in the air -- is Bill Galea's job description. He's a container crane operator at the Port of Oakland, the fifth busiest container port in the country. Cars, ...
It takes a smooth and practiced hand to load container ships at Port Houston. With two joysticks and myriad buttons, crane operators must hoist cargo over the side of an expensive vessel and onto an ...
In an aerial view, container ships and shipping containers are seen at the Port of Los Angeles on September 20, 2021 near Los Angeles, California. The finger-pointing at the busy Los Angeles County ...
OSHA has published a new fact sheet to improve crane operation safety in marine terminals. The publication, "Radio Communication Can Assist Container Gantry Crane ...
The recent surge of container traffic at the Port of Baltimore’s piers has caused congestion on the docks, most notably for truckers, who often spend hours waiting for their cargo in long lines on ...
This is the shocking moment a 183ft crane plummeted on to the docks with the operator still inside the cabin after it was hit by one of the world's largest container ships. The CCTV footage was ...
“It takes many hours of being in that seat and repeating the same task over and over again to be proficient — it doesn’t happen overnight,” said Scott Reeves, who’s in charge of training ship-to-shore ...
Georgia Ports Authority crane operators have a new state-of-the-art training tool - a virtual reality crane simulator that operates much like those used to train pilots. Built by GlobalSim, the ...