China Shipping, one of China's largest shipping companies, through its local agent Intermaritime ltd. offers a new weekly service, in co-operation with Zim Lines, to Greece and Adriatic ports. The newly inaugurated service will call at the main Adriatic p

The Haifa port board of directors appointed last week former Israel Railways general manager, Amos Uzani, as the port's new director general

Mr. Oded Feller, president of the Haifa Chamber of Commerce called upon Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Industry Trade and Labor Ehud Olmert to consider Haifa as a host city for the Israeli Jordanian economic conference

Finance Minister, Transportation Minister, and Histadrut Labor Federation chairman, signed last week the port reform agreement officially creating three competing port companies - Ashdod, Haifa, & Eilat

A high ranking Israeli trade delegation headed by Mr. Uriel Lynn, president of the Federation of the Israeli Chambers of Commerce ( FICC ), visited yesterday the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba

Zim Integrated shipping Services announced last week an improved sailing schedule to the East African port of Djibouti. In a press release Zim said it would add two monthly sailings from Haifa and Ashdod to Djibouti. Transit time five days

The Israel Ports Authority (IPA) reported last week profits of NIS 518 million for 2004. The profit represents a surge of 430% over 2003, despite the long summer strike at the three main sea ports

According to sources at the Israel Ports Authority, the ports workers union had concluded a round of talks with the Finance Ministry in which it was agreed that the Ports Authority would offer 27% of all workers at the state-owned ports - about 630 employ