Following his party's program of internal improvements, he proposed that shipping piers be built at public expense around the waterfront so as to stimulate trade and create jobs.

Boat tours on the Rhine river (e.g. to Nijmegen, Netherlands) can be taken from the small shipping pier.

The aquarium, built on an old shipping pier in the heart of the Inner Harbor, has more than 5,000 salt and freshwater species.

The park as envisioned by the plan includes a four-and-a-half-mile waterfront esplanade, with 13 former shipping piers converted to ballfields, playgrounds and boating facilities, with gardens, fountains and public gardens included.

The Hudson River pier, which is not an active shipping pier at present, is used for warehousing and automobile parking.

The Grand Trunk Pacific dock was a shipping pier in Seattle, Washington.

The area off the main shipping piers didn't seem promising, nor did the busy areas by the fishing piers.

Initial operations consisted of serving the old mines, hauling coal to the international shipping piers on Sydney Harbour (Louisbourg's piers were abandoned during the 1960s).

Previously an active shipping pier and warehouse, Pier 54 was originally known as Pier 3 until it was renumbered during World War Two.

However the construction of a shipping pier at the river led to a build up of sand and silt just to the north.