& Technology journal has begun a series of special publications with the best works presented during the International Ship Design and Naval Engineering Congress, which successfully culminated its third version in the city of Cartagena de Indias on the 13 th , 14 th , and 15 th of March 2013 with the central theme: "Toward enhancement of the technological capacities for the development of the national maritime power -Surface Strategy Platform (PES, for the term in Spanish)".