And on the quayside was stacked tons of cargo: secondhand cars, oil barrels, boxes of shirts, milk powder, cooking oil, even a pallet of Nutella.
Those using Roadie to ship their items to date have sent a number of different types of items including toys, mattresses, boxes of shirts, and more.
Through his contacts with the Jets and Nike, Richardson sent three boxes of hats, shirts, jackets and shorts to Nelson.
On a recent Friday afternoon at the Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., workers preparing for a company-wide meeting were cutting open boxes of T shirts to hand out.
The end result is a box full of shirts made of the same materials, and cut in the same way as shirts that cost considerably more — comparable slim fit shirts with a Hugo Boss label easily run in excess of $100, which can be a tough pill to swallow for stylish dudes on a budget.
After battling traffic into the city, he and other volunteers unpacked cardboard boxes of T-shirts, sweatshirts and baseball hats to sell.
There are hundreds of boxes of T-shirts and socks, cases of painkillers and flashlights, pallets stacked high with dog food and paper towels.
The front hall was full of CDs, books, and boxes of T-shirts, and Oldham was holding a small stack of light-blue envelopes, the same shade as the cover of his most recent album.
On Monday, Mr. Villard drove through the gates of his plant compound in Carrefour, where dozens of workers were busy cleaning up the wasteland and securing the surviving piles of fabric and boxes of T-shirts.
Vendors unpacked boxes of T-shirts that stored this rivalry over the cold months, and it will be interesting to see what the atmosphere surrounding these games will be this year, with some people predicting the Red Sox and the Yankees to finish low in the American League East.
Only months, or even weeks, after some well-known Web merchants shut down, collectors are already paying hundreds of dollars on eBay for mementos like eToys stock certificates and boxes of T-shirts and other trinkets bearing the names of Kozmo, Webvan, Pets.com and other defunct mainstays of the e-commerce craze.
