The economic indicators for the growth of commercial traffic in the ports of Umm Qasr and Khor Al-Zubair us to seek the face of this development, which will be witnessed in those ports and showed us a serious concern the evolution of the efficiency of the Shatt al-Basra canal navigation and increase the capacity of the river transport. The Shatt al-Basra shipping Last outlet on the Arabian Gulf in addition to the Shatt al-Arab as well as its association with the ports of Khor Al-Zubair and Umm Qasr in the downstream and connected with Karmat Ali River and Main Drain which reached of Dhi- Qar province at the upstream canal. Became the Shatt al-Basra road inland waterways for the passage of important local vessels as the passage across the Shatt al-Arab is long and hard, while shorten the distance from 250 km to 70 km. The project of the Shatt al-Basra, which was completed by the Iraqi Ports Authority, is one of the projects adopted by the Iraqi government after a flood in 1969. Ifa n the first book in this matter was issued by the Minister of Agrarian Reform dated 04/06/1969 addressed to the General Directorate of Irrigation requesting prepare a technical study of the possibility