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It then announced construction of the biggest terminal yet on the New Jersey side, designed for the Waterman Steamship Company, which would be moving across the harbor from Brooklyn. The Waterman terminal would have a fifteen-hundred-foot wharf running parallel to the shore for faster docking and easier loading—a feature no New York City pier could match.
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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