Shore facility

Shore facility

Shore facility is one of the facilities located on shore used for receiving ships and transferring cargo and people to them. Ports and marinas constitute a collection of various shore facilities. Shore facilities are designed for the efficient intermodal transportation of goods and people inland by trains, surface vehicles, and/or pipelines.

A shore facility may include, magazine buildings or warehouses for storage of goods, loading cranes, equipment laydown areas, dry docks, fuel storage tanks, refrigerated storage, breakwaters, quays, wharfs, jetties, piers and slipways with cranes or ramps, mooring dolphins, etc.


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