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An ISO 40 foot container stacked on a Container ship could be loaded just like a truck bomb. That is it could have sufficient power to make a very large explosion. While the results would be tragic, most intermodal ISO containers never, and I repeat never get into areas where there are thousands of people. Therefore, the comparison to the damage at the twin towers, is not valid. Yes, such a device could do damage to the ship, it could make a mess, but it could not kill two to three thousand people, just because it would not be in a place where that kind of population density would likely be.

Every since the "Canadian" was found in an airplane pilots uniform within a customized ISO container that he was taking a trip from Egypt to Canada, there has been a theory that container shipping security is way too lax. Also the US has sent agents to various Canadian ports to check cargo containers there prior to their shipment to the US. So it is possible and would be horrible, but survivable.

Therefore, the comparison to the damage at the twin towers, is not valid. Yes, such a device could do damage to the ship, it could make a mess, but it could not kill two to three thousand people, just because it would not be in a place where that kind of population density would likely be.

The Texas City, Texas explosion in 1947 of first one ship and then a second, killed almost 600 hundred people and injured almost 4000. It is said that if the same thing happened in the same location today, the dead toll would be in the 10's of thousands.

98% of containers are never checked or touched by human hands. Computers guide cranes that load them onto railcars and trucks, and send them on into interior America.

A simple GPS trigger could then detonate the container bomb, 20 times bigger than OKC, when it's in downtown Chicago or passing over the Golden Gate Bridge.

This will happen.

But as I said above, look at the bright side: the islemmings will have a few decades to adapt to drinking oil and eating sand.