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SUPERINTENDENT, TERMINAL

Specialty Definition: SUPERINTENDENT, TERMINAL

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Occupations

Manages operations of freight terminal to load and discharge ships' cargoes: Studies ship's manifests to determine whether cargo should be stored in transit sheds or on wharves and to determine what equipment is needed to handle cargo. Notifies SUPERINTENDENT, STEVEDORING (water trans.) to assign workers to jobs and arrange dock space for freight. Computes cost of operations for tonnage handled. Directs purchase of cargo-handling gear and maintenance of terminal and company equipment. May order railroad cars or hire trucks and tractors for transporting freight from docks. When working with company whose terminal has piers located at different places, may be designated Superintendent, Pier (water trans.). May direct operations at container terminal and be designated Superintendent, Container Terminal (water trans.). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SUPERINTENDENT, TERMINAL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 55 50 45 52 49 4E 54 45 4E 44 45 4E 54 2C      54 45 52 4D 49 4E 41 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01010101 01010000 01000101 01010010 01001001 01001110 01010100 01000101 01001110 01000100 01000101 01001110 01010100 00101100 00100000 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#85 &#80 &#69 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#84 &#69 &#78 &#68 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#44 &#32 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#77 &#73 &#78 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0055 0050 0045 0052 0049 004E 0054 0045 004E 0044 0045 004E 0054 002C      0054 0045 0052 004D 0049 004E 0041 004C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53555039524348543948383948541425439524743483546

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