How do you get cargo and supplies to a shoreline where there are no ports or piers? 

That’s the problem the relief effort faced in Gaza, and one that military forces and humanitarian groups have faced countless times in history. 

During World War 2, a navy engineer figured out a solution, using this model of cigar boxes as the prototype to show how a steel pontoon causeway could be made. 
https://m.primal.net/IKAX.jpg 

The technology would prove to be instrumental in the D-Day landings, the Korean and Vietnam Wars and the current floating pier for aid off #Gaza. 
https://theconversation.com/how-the-gaza-humanitarian-aid-pier-traces-its-origins-to-discarded-cigar-boxes-before-world-war-ii-230267
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