Following the recent board of directors meeting in Copenhagen, Head quarters of A.P. Moller – Maersk Group, it was decided to change the corporate structure of its Tel-Aviv based Israel subsidiary, Mercury Shipping Company Ltd

The latest report issued last week by the World Economic Forum, on Global Competitiveness, ranks Israel in nineteenth place among 104 countries. Israel advanced in the present report one place higher from its rank of 20th in 2003's report

Hatsu Marine a subsidiary of the global Evergreen shipping company is to start a weekly containerized service from the Far East to the Israeli medports of Ashdod & Haifa via the Italian trans-shipment port of Taranto.

Israel’s Arkia airline inaugurated last week a direct air service between Israel to Georgia. On the inaugural flight Arkia’s Boing 757 flew the two and a half hours flight carrying 3 tons of cargo

In a press release Maman Aviation emphasized that since July 2003 when Arkia began its direct flights to Copenhagen, and due to special agreements made by Arkia, it is now possible to offer cargo connection flights to almost all Scandinavian destination