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Deliveries as they actually happen: pallets on the quay, stores going up the gangway, fish on ice in the hour before it is loaded.

Our own photographs from supply runs — cruise ships, naval auxiliaries and merchant ships. A delivery is our work to show, but a vessel's name and a crew member's face are theirs, so those appear here only with their consent.

  • Stores chain up the gangway, RFA Argus at Kattupalli

  • Produce pallet checked at the shell door

  • Supply launch alongside with drums and stores

  • Lube oil drums lifted from the launch

  • Drums landed on deck by crane

  • Provisions stowed in the ship's stores

  • Cartons up the gangway, RFA Argus

  • Naval provisions checked on the quay

  • A shrink-wrapped pallet of A2Z provision cases resting on a loading platform at an open hull door, ready to be taken aboard.
  • Two pallets of bagged stores on the quay alongside a cruise ship's hull, waiting to be lifted.
  • Whole fresh fish packed on ice in crates on the quayside, immediately before loading.
  • Bundled steel and deck stores being landed on a vessel's deck by ship's crane, with crew standing by.
  • Cases of provisions being carried up a vessel's gangway by hand during a delivery.
  • A shrink-wrapped pallet of A2Z Ship Stores fruit and vegetable cartons on the loading platform of a cruise ship's shell door.
  • A ship's officer lifting tomatoes from an open A2Z Ship Stores carton on a pallet to check them on the quay.
  • Crew lifting A2Z Ship Stores fruit cartons from a trolley into a ship's shell door.
  • Crew passing cases hand to hand up the gangway of a grey auxiliary ship, with an A2Z representative on the quay.
  • Two pallets of netted fresh produce, wrapped and strapped, on the platform at a grey ship's shell door.
  • Crew in high-visibility vests unpacking cartons of fresh herbs and produce on the platform at a ship's shell door.
  • Two blue drums lifted by a ship's crane from a supply launch alongside, the launch's deck loaded with steel bar and bagged stores.
  • Two blue drums being landed on a ship's deck by crane, with a crew member in coveralls handling the tag line.
  • Looking down from a ship's rail at a supply launch alongside, loaded with drums, steel bar and bagged stores.
  • Pallets of A2Z Ship Stores fruit and vegetable cartons on the quay beside a Virgin Voyages ship, with nets of limes in front.
  • Crew handing shrink-wrapped packs of bottled water across a pallet at a ship's shell door.
  • A ship's officer checking A2Z Ship Stores fruit cartons against the order beside an open reefer truck on the quay.
  • A ship's chef and an A2Z representative in front of the L&T Shipyard welcome board for RFA Argus at Kattupalli, Chennai, in 2024.
  • A ship's officer and an A2Z representative going through delivery paperwork on the quay beside a grey auxiliary ship and an open truck.
  • A2Z Ship Stores cartons and netted produce on the quay while service personnel check the delivery beside a grey auxiliary ship.
  • Stacked A2Z Ship Stores cartons, a net of limes and a carton marked CARROT on the quay, with service personnel and an A2Z representative alongside.
  • Three A2Z Ship Stores fruit cartons stacked on the quay at the foot of a netted gangway, with blue drums further along.
  • Crew in hard hats unloading blue jerrycans from a pallet on the quay beside a grey ship.
  • A pallet stacked with A2Z Ship Stores fruit cartons at the open shell door of a Phoenix Reisen cruise ship.
  • A forklift bringing a pallet of A2Z Ship Stores cartons along the quay beside a cruise ship.
  • A shrink-wrapped pallet of netted fresh vegetables on a ship's deck, a crew member reaching up beside it.
  • Ship's crew moving nets of lemons and limes off a pallet through a shell door.
  • Crew wheeling a trolley of netted fruit out of a ship's shell door.
  • Ship's crew loading A2Z Ship Stores fresh fruit and vegetable cartons from a trolley at the top of the gangway.
  • Crew in white coveralls and lifejackets taking A2Z Ship Stores cartons from a pallet through a hull door.
  • Two A2Z Ship Stores cartons on a pallet under stacked trays of berries, checked by ship's crew inside the stores entrance.
  • A crew member stacking A2Z Ship Stores fruit cartons inside a ship's stores room.
  • Crew unpacking trays of blueberries from a pallet at a ship's shell door during a provisions delivery.
  • A ship's chef opening an A2Z Ship Stores fresh fruit and vegetable carton on the platform at a hull door.
  • A crew member checking heads of lettuce in an opened A2Z Ship Stores carton on a pallet beside the ship.
  • Ship's crew unloading A2Z Ship Stores cartons and green crates of yellow peppers on the quay.
  • Crew wheeling a trolley of bottled water along the quay beside a cruise ship.
  • A2Z Ship Stores cartons being carried along the quay to a netted gangway.
  • An A2Z representative shaking hands with ship's staff on the quay in front of a small cruise ship's bow.
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