from Chabad.org
Gematria in Kabbalistic and Chassidic texts
Gematria is an integral element of sod, the concealed aspects of the Torah. Kabbalah makes frequent use of gematria as a way of crystallizing a teaching.
Gematria using English has numerous ciphers, the base four are Ordinal, Reverse Ordinal, Reduction and Reverse Reduction.
The floating pier story has been interesting because there was no need to build it. So it probably has another purpose - one we may never be able to directly verify.
Deciphering the numeric elements in a story can give us insight about things that don't outwardly appear to be - but are in fact - related; that names are created, like Trident pier, because they match numerically with other elements of the story.
Wikipedia:
On 14 May 1948, the day the British Mandate over Palestine expired, the Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, and approved a proclamation, in which it declared "the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel."
Trident pier and Eretz Israel match in three out of the four base Gematria ciphers.
The Temple of Solomon - is relevant to the building of the Third Temple. It appears - numerically at least - that the pier is relevant to the Third Temple.
more on the Third Temple in post #2..