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I worked on a auto carrier. You had to be really really careful whenever you went onto the auto decks, no tools in your pockets just in case they scratched the paint on any of the new cars. The crew who did maintenance on the car decks didn't have pockets on their coveralls, so their was no possibility of damaging any paint jobs.

Then the longshoremen would discharge the cargo and the faster they finished, the sooner they got to go home. It was like Le Mans on the car deck and on the dock. Fortunately, they were very good at their jobs and never scratched one car in all the time I worked on that ship. But if you think that your new car with 6 miles on the odometer was babied, you are terribly wrong.

I have a container ship story too, I worked for Matson Navigation for a few years. Sometimes they used refrigerated containers to transport cars. If the container had cars in it, they were supposed to put the container into the slots, backwards, indicating that it was full of non-refrigerated cargo.
On one trip I made they put a few containers with cars in them on the ship As if they were to be refrigerated. The Reefer electrician plugged them in as he was supposed to. All the cars in those containers were brought down to minus twenty degrees for the trip. I hope thy all had antifreeze in them!