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Photo essay: Thirty-six hours: a port through day and night

  • More than 40,000 containers handled on an average day
  • Pilots board around six vessels per shift
  • Automated quay cranes now make up 60 per cent of the fleet

From the pilot boat before dawn to the cranes still working at midnight, we spent a day and a half on the docks recording a port that never stops.

Photographs and reporting by He An News 1 min read 288 comments 1,340 shares
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