It’s necessary the ports around the world should be measuring their performance and the determination thus indicators considering the importance diminution to achieving a lot of their targets such as to know their situation about competition, strategic planning, update their technology and expansion the investments. Although international organization had submitted them and published also thus indicators but in fact also a lot of them don not following  particular the whole governing ports,  In the world, all ports are unique, and the task of measuring and analyzing performance is not simple and is made more difficult by the failure to establish industry standards on what to measure, how to measure it and how to express the measure in an informative and consistent manner. This difficulty is compounded by the fact that there is no single measure that can sum up all the important aspects of port or terminal performance. This study aims to analyze the existing literature about performance measures of container terminal operations.