On board the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company cargo liner Strathanna (1966) at Dubai. The ship is berthed starboard side to the quay. The photographer is on the port side of the forecastle deck abreast number 2 crane looking aft. Holds two and three are open and a wooden-encased cable reel is being discharged from number two upper hold using the ship's own derricks. Two 20 feet containers, a Coles mobile crane, a road trailer, a forklift truck, nine steel containers of an Octel product and stacks of dunnage are on deck either side of the hatch coamings. A vertical format negative. Transparencies numbers P63827CT, P63828CT, P64686CT, P64728CT, P64743CT to P64745CT, P64798CT to P64801CT and P64812CT to P64817CT were taken on the same occasion.