In May 2009, was presented the book “INTERNATIONAL MARITIME TRANSPORT” . In the preface of this book the following statement is defined: As time goes by, the construction of container ships is growing constantly in size, there are ships built with a capacity of more of 15,200 container units known as TEUs; and for the year 2010, there are plans to build ships to carry 22,000 containers; a situation that will later present new risks and challenges to the busiest ports, and especially the way the tremendous amount of container boxes will present to its load and unload.