How to become a lashing worker

Official title: Lashing worker

Also called: Car lasher, Ÿ Car lasher

Lashing worker performs lashing and unlashing operations on board vessels. He/she also performs vessel berthing and unberthing, and container reefer plugging and unplugging operations.

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

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Questions people ask

Will AI change the work of a lashing worker?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026