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 Frank Divona represents and is Regional Vice President, Business Development, of Metropolitan Stevedore Company, 720 East "E" Street, Wilmington, California 90744. He has served on the WIPAC, since its inception in 1974.
Metropolitan Stevedore has been located in Wilmington since 1923. The company built and opened new headquarters in 1989 at its present location where it has been since 1948. Years ago, the company used what was sophisticated equipment at the time, rope slings and handcarts, to service the wooden docks, giving Metropolitan Stevedore an early reputation for offering clientele in the Los Angeles/Long Beach harbor area the very latest in heavy-lift handling. In those days, a stevedore, someone who loads and unloads ships, was known as "the man with the hook" moving crates, boxes, and bales around the dock. Early cargoes, though small by today's standards, consisted of familiar items: exotic fruits, seafood, ore and general goods.
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