Leaving aside bulk cargoes, dry cargo now comes in all shapes and sizes but is mostly small enough to be handled by relatively light ships'gear or packed into containers that are loaded by shore cranes.There have always been some pieces of cargo that were out of the ordinary, either in terms of weight or sheer size. Until the latter half of the 20th century, it would have been normal for such cargo to be loaded onboard using shore cranes as very few ships had the ability to handle anything above 20 tonnes with their own gear.
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