And the New York Flower Show will leave the ship terminal at 50th Street for the Coliseum next March.

By contrast, the ship terminal, which the flower show had rented in recent years, seemed too remote, and gardeners chafed at the 12-foot ceiling there.

Sitka has a cruise business, but about a third of the size of Ketchikan's, mainly because it has so far resisted building a big ship terminal.

Nine projects valued at $3 billion are being developed in a district once dominated by wharves, ship terminals, fish processors and warehouses.

Already, long lines of tractor-trailers form at the entrances to the ship terminals, waiting to pick up growing loads of containers.

Port officials have talked for years about investing more in the ship terminals.

In the intensity of getting through the Soviet exit system, I had missed the currency exchange office tucked away in the ship terminal.

The section of route from Weymouth to the ship terminal at the quay is actually tramway, following (and largely in the middle of) the harbour road.

The ship terminal has long lost millions of dollars a year, however, and the authority has previously said it did not plan to remain the operator.

Adjacent to the industrial complex is the new Bayport Terminal, which contains both a major new cargo container shipping terminal and a cruise ship terminal.