Brooklyn was long a major shipping port, especially at the
Brooklyn Army Terminal and
Bush Terminal in
Sunset Park. Most container ship cargo operations have shifted to the New Jersey side of New York Harbor, while the
Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in
Red Hook is a focal point for New York's growing cruise industry. The
Queen Mary 2, one of the
world's largest ocean liners, was designed specifically to fit under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the United States. She makes regular ports of call at the Red Hook terminal on her transatlantic crossings from
Southampton, England. The Brooklyn waterfront formerly employed tens of thousands of borough residents and acted as an incubator for industries across the entire city, and the decline of the port exacerbated Brooklyn's decline in the second half of the 20th century.