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In Britain, people who load and unload ships are known as stevedores, dockworkers or dockers.
Stevedores usually load or unload cargo on ships.
A permanent structure for ships to load and unload cargo and passengers.
The word is quay.
An alongshoreman is another word for a longshoreman, a man employed to load and unload ships.
It keeps the keel side down, and can compensate for an uneven cargo load.
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.
dock, port, harbour, jetty, wharf, quay...