Ports of Los Angeles & Long Beach

USC Environmental Health Outreach Program THE Impact Project Music by: Kevin MacLeod

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Utility Tractor Rig (UTR) used to move containers around the yard

UTRs which need repair

Side view of UTR. Longshore workers climb up step to enter door to cabin

Rear view of UTR with sliding door to cabin open

Mechanic shop

UTRs being repaired

Longshoremen under the hook awaiting a container to be set on the chassis. A ‘signal man’ (L) directs containers, the ‘swing man’ (R) checks pins on containers.

Containers on a ship to be discharged

20 foot containers and liquid ‘bulk tanks’

Stacked (or decked) containers in the yard

Trucker waiting for the ‘side-handler’ to remove an empty container from the bed

Side-handler attaches to container in preparation to lift it from the truck chassis

A ‘top-handler’ is used to move this loaded container from the truck chassis to the stacks by grabbing it from the top.

A ‘transtainer’ (or Rubber Tired Gantry) is able to go to middle rows of stacks and move containers

A top-handler holds up a container either to place it on the stack or onto an awaiting chassis

APL ship containers being moved

Photo of the highline with hammerhead cranes loading and unloading containers

The house of APL Korea which holds headquarters, control rooms, kitchen, etc.

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A ‘top-handler’ is used to move this loaded container from the truck chassis to the stacks by grabbing it from the top.

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