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

As of November 2004, due to surge in Turkish – Israeli bilateral trade, Turkon Line will replace its container vessel M/V East Express by a larger vessel M/V Aynur Urkmez

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

Study published by the British financial weekly “The Economist” shows that Israel’s per capita GDP is almost $20,000 in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP)

A. Rosenfeld shipping ltd., port agents for Lloyd Triestino (LT) in Israel, has informed the shipping public that at the end of August, its principle will upgrade its Intra Med Service

Mr. Yechiel Asia, Director General of the Israeli Export Institute, who presented the figures, added that the relative security improvement in the region may help to increase even further the bilateral trade with the Arab world

Delmas shipping is offering a new service from the East African port of Mombasa to Israel. Delmas’ local ship agent “Gold Line Shipping” told reporters that the new service is based on direct sailings from the port of Mombasa through the Suez canal to Por

As of the beginning of June 2004 Zim lines has restructure its service from Los Angeles to Israel. Within the framework of its new service schedule, Zim lines container service ships will not call at Los Angeles port on their route eastwards to Israel.