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It is called a port
dock, port, harbour, jetty, wharf, quay...
A port.
A navy is a group of ships that use a pier as a place to dock, load, or unload.
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Quay, pronounced like "key." It is a place like a warf or structured bank alongside which a ship can moor to load or off load cargo.
In Britain, people who load and unload ships are known as stevedores, dockworkers or dockers.
A permanent structure for ships to load and unload cargo and passengers.
Stevedores usually load or unload cargo on ships.
An alongshoreman is another word for a longshoreman, a man employed to load and unload ships.
That is a wharf or a dock.
The quay, which is pronounced like "key" is, can be defined as a place like a warf or structured bank alongside which a ship can moor to load or off load cargo. A link is provided below.