Tel Aviv climbed sharply to the 24th place from the 38th place in 2008. Jerusalem has also become a more expensive city to live in, moving up 12 spots to the 27th place

According to a new report released by IMD, Isreal slipped three places compared with last year with a score of 73.425

The service which will employ 13 TEU 6,000 capacity vessels will call at Ashdod port as the first port of call after crossing the Suez Canal

The joint operation will deploy eight TEU 4,200 container vessels, five from the Grand Alliance and three from Zim, and will take effect from early next month

According yo ACI the Ben Gurion airport came second in the world for airports with annual passenger traffic of 5-15 million

The company is to temporarily suspend its fixed-day weekly Asia-Gulf Express (AGX) service. ZCS service will now add a call at Pusan

Cooperation will be on two strings of the NWX and PNX services on the transpacific with immediate effect. Zim will provide three TEU 8,000 to TEU 10,000 vessels from July onward

The service will introduce the port of Nhava Sheva on both Eastbound and Westbound legs and will call the Russian port of Novorossiysk as well as the Turkish Ports of Istanbul