docks

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That means more dry docks, new facilities and a larger technical workforce to raise construction and repair rates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

With the help of UPS’s network of trucks, Happy moves returns from shopper drop-off back to retailers’ docks in as little as 3.6 days, with an average return transit time of seven days.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Miller, of Gayton Road, King's Lynn, Norfolk, had been transporting scrap metal from King's Lynn docks to two Network Rail depots in Essex and Cambridgeshire.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

Elsewhere, police dismantled a makeshift barrier erected by protesters blockading western Galway docks.

From Barron's • Apr. 12, 2026

In the afternoon he would inspect the ships in the docks.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman