Professional dock

A dock for a fixed goods and a moving cargo, as opposed to an integrated dock. For example: coal dock, fertilizer (bulk or bag) wharf, oil terminal, container terminal and so on. Its characteristic is that the dock equipment is relatively fixed, easy to unload the mechanization and the automation, the loading and unloading efficiency is high, the wharf passes the ability big, the management is convenient.

A container terminal

Special container loading dock. It generally will have special loading and unloading, and transportation equipment, must have the freight, storage container yard wide, classification and disassembling containers for goods with container freight station. Because the container can wrap all sorts of multifarious cargo and general cargo of normalized unity, so large specialized equipment may be used for loading and unloading, transportation, ensure the quality of cargo handling, transportation, and improve the efficiency of port loading and unloading. So at present, the world countries are paying great attention to the formation and containerization of the goods.

The owner wharf

Along the river, river, lake and sea industrial enterprises, in the process of raw materials, fuel, transportation of manufactured goods, in order to reduce the load and short-distance transport, reduce the product cost, usually near the close to the enterprise, by this enterprise construction of the dock. The more specialized ports are known as the shipper docks.

Oil terminal

Specialized wharf for loading and unloading of crude oil and petroleum products. It is a safe distance from ordinary cargo docks and other fixed buildings, see "oil port". The general characteristic of this kind of wharf is the cargo load is small, the loading and unloading equipment is relatively simple, when the tanker is not small, the pier of general portable model can adjust. Due to the large scale of the offshore oil tanker in modern times, the characteristics of large scale and deep draught of the tanker are not high enough for the dock stability condition. There are four kinds of deep-water wharf, namely, single point mooring, multi-point mooring, island quay and pier pier. The first three kinds of buildings are generally not protected against wind and waves, and the last one is designed to prevent wind and waves, depending on the arrangement form and local conditions.

Comprehensive wharf

Also known as the general dock. A dock that can handle a variety of cargo handling operations. General loading and unloading machine is used in general. This type of pier is adaptable, which is suitable for unstable or small quantities.