Uzbekistan Airways will add, beginning of December, a weekly flight from Tashkent Airport to Shanghai thus increasing the capacity as well as the frequency of flights to mainland China for the benefit of Israeli exporters who use Uzbekistan Airways to rea

Mr. Ehud Olmert Minister of Industry Trade and Labor will visit India in early December. Olmert will head a 100-member business delegation of Israeli high-tech, defense and security executives, biotechnology, infrastructures, environment, agriculture. The

Israel Corporation and its daughter company Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. outlined last Sunday the business model for the acquisition of 12 container vessels in a $732 million deal

Mr. Uriel Lynn, president of The Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce ( FICC ) said last week that bilateral trade with the EU will reach the 35 billion dollars mark in 2004. In a press release based on figures published by theCentral Bureau of Stat

The Central Bureau of Statistics ( CBS ) reported last Wednesday that exports to the US surged by an annualized 29.3% in the past three months. The increase according to the CBS extends a 23.4% rise in US-bound exports between May and July of 2004

Figures published by the Central Bureau of Statistics ( CBS ) show that Israel's growth rate is rising, despite signs of a decline in the standard of living, and in investment in the third quarter of 2004, due to strikes and disruptions by ports workers a

Mr. Adilbek Dzhaksybekov, Kazakhstan Minister of Industry and Trade visited Israel last week at the head of a delegation of 24 Kazakh government officials and businessmen.

The London-based weekly "The Economist" predicted last week a 3.3% growth for Israel's economy in 2004 and a further 3.6% growth rate in 2005