Hamburg Sd will employ five ships with a capacity between 2,500 and 2,700 TEU, including 600 reefer units. The new service will be based on a weekly fix day service

The company noted that the new service will commence on August 23rd and will call at Haifa and Ashdod on fixed day

An additional weekly call will be made at Ashdod thus improving the service between Turkish and Greek ports to Ashdod

During the first six months, Israeli ports handled TEU 1.157 million compared to the TEU 990,000 in the corresnponding period. During the first six months Israeli ports handled 20.9 million tons

Early this year talks failed to reach an agreement on several outstanding issues, including ownership of land at Haifa Port and actuarial estimates

The port noted that since the beginning of the year the average number of containers unloaded stands at 25 moves p/h

The service from Israel will call at Australia's main maritime gateways: Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney, Freemantle and Melbourne

In 2009 Israel's maritime gateways handled 979,500 loaded TEUs compared to 1,066,700 loaded TEUs in 2008, a drop of 8%