Turkey was the second largest source of incoming containers with TEU 51,075 and TEU 11,169 exported

The tourism industry contributed some 40 billion shekels ($10.4 billion) and 160,000 jobs to Israel's economy

Loop ABX will also call Damietta, enabling OOCL to offer service on a bi-weekly basis, thereby doubling the capacity

The Asia Black Sea Express service (ABX) will call at the Egyptian port of Damietta on bi-weekly frequency which will allow doubling the capacity from the Far East to Israel

The new service optimises the existing networks and deploys 4 vessels of each 2.200 TEU, the service will begin January 2009

Potatoes will go to the UK, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Russia, Greece, Belgium and Poland

The service is a weekly service deploying nine TEU 4,083 - TEU 4250 vessels. The last EWX voyage is Zim Genova departing Shanghai on Oct. 4th

Imports from China (by country of origin) have grown from $900m in 2000 to $4.6b in 2007