Ashdod port will begin handling cargo shipment and will become affectively the only direct call port on the eastern Mediterranean. Cosco will arrive to Ashdod once a week, on Thursday morning

Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute (IEICI) announced last week that Israeli industrial export to Arab countries (not including diamonds) increased by 29% in 2005 and totaled an estimated USD 232.6 million

Ortodossi S.R.L. and Kislev Forwarding and Trade, have started a sole agency cooperation this week

K-Line: Kawasaki, Kisen, Kaisha, Ltd. one of Japan's leading shipping companies, is understood to be considering calling directly at Israeli Mediterranean ports

Chinese and Israeli representatives signed last week a tourism cooperation deal. The signing ceremony held in the Dan Carmel hotel in Haifa, marked the end of a week-long visit of the Chinese delegation's to promote Chinese tourism in Israel

Israeli industrial exports, excluding diamonds, to Arab countries rose in January-September 2005 by 26%, compared with the corresponding period of 2004,to $171 million

The Finance Committee dealing with the construction of the SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) Particle Accelerator met in Amman, on November 7 and 8, 2005

The Bush administration had designated a new Qualifying Industrial Zone ( QIZ) in Egypt and approved the expansion of two zones in the country. The new designated zone is the Central Delta QIZ. The Greater Cairo QIZ and Suez Canal Zone QIZ will be expande