Do You

need help to unload a shipping container

What?

Unloading shipping containers can mean one of two things:

  1. unloading a shipping container from a ship or train 
  2. unloading the contents of a shipping container, also known as destuffing
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1. Unloading a shipping container from a ship or train

Shipping containers arrive at ports on container ships and are unloaded at ports by specialized cranes called container handling gantry cranes or ship-to-shore cranes. 

To get your container unloaded at a port or from a train you will need to contact the corresponding port authority or train company. 

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2. Unloading the contents of a shipping container, also known as destuffing

Unloading the contents of a shipping container is also referred to as destuffing or offloading. Normally container destuffing is done at warehouses by workers by hand or by using a forklift. 

To get your container destuffed by professional workers for a flat rate try a lumper service like Lumper HQ.

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