In the 1930s, Japan built as many as ten piers in Keelung Port, among which the West 2nd and West 3rd warehouses connected by footbridges were built in 1932 and 1934 respectively. As a major passenger terminal, the West Coast Terminal witnessed the forcible repatriation of the Japanese during the end of World War II, the disembarkation of the northern branch of the Nationalist Army of incident February 28, and the disembarkation of the retreating Nationalist Army after the defeat of the Civil War, among other significant events in history.