He might have been counting cargo pallets.
There was a long line of cargo pallets in the centre bay.
Alternative loads include a medical team and 16 stretchers, and cargo pallets.
I was bumped along quickly, and soon loaded onto a cargo pallet.
From a distance, it looked like a large silver cone about five feet tall mounted on a cargo pallet.
Its rear ramp provides for transport of standard cargo pallets.
Crawling back, he used his knife to cut the tie-down straps on the cargo pallets and shouted in Vietnamese for help.
It wasn't a knife, but one of the hooks stevedores used to maneuver cargo pallets while they were swinging through the air.
He considered stealing one of the miners' cargo pallets, but then he remembered how much noise the lifter would make.
There were several shuttles present, and cargo pallets were being guided among them.