With a new direct weekly call in Haifa, MSC's Golden Gate Service will offer shorter transit time with 13 9200 TEU vessels. Israeli sources noted that it will have a major impact on the Israeli shipping sector.

The cooperation will commence around the last week of March 2012, pending final FMC approval, and will cover two main shipping loops

Drugs were hidden inside industrial machinery and then shipped in containers. Three marine containers have been seized so far

800 tourists on board the 68,000 Gross registered tons Crystal Serenity luxury liner toured Israel last week for 11 hours while the cruise ship anchored at Ashdod port.

Efrat Cohen: In 2005, a 7% increase in the number of exporters (including diamond exporters) to the United States; an 8% percent increase in the number of exporters to Asia and a 10% decrease to the European Community; the largest number of exporters is t

In January 2005 import of goods (excluding diamonds) totaled $2.8 billion, export of goods (excluding diamonds) totaled $2.0 billion and the trade deficit (excluding diamonds) totaled $0.8 billion