Last year with its economic recession hit severely the global market of container shipping. The leading ports in the world demonstrated 25% drop of container throughput by the end of the year compared with the previous year. The container terminals were the worst hit by economic slump. At the same time dockers started talking about the end of the crisis, after which a timid recovery of cargo traffic could start this year - by some estimates up to 15-20% compared to 2009.