The new service, which commenced in mid May 2007 is part of the East Mediterranean Express (EMX) service set up by the CKYH Alliance

India's largest bank, State Bank of India (SBI), inaugurated its first Israeli branch last Thursday

Hanjin Shipping Company Ltd. (HJS) announced it had decided to nominate F.C.C. Shipping as its sole port agent in Israel

the new direct link between China and East Mediterranean will stabelise the company’s sales outpost in the Israel and Greece regions, where transport volumes are rapidly increasing

The Joint Venture plans to invest 2 billion USD in the next few years to build large-scale rail container terminals in 18 selected cities over two phases in China by 2010

Zim has a 55% share in the plant together with local companies. The project will have an annual production capacity of 150,000 TEUS

Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd, has announced that as of April 2006 the AMP vessels will call directly East Mediterranean ports instead of Adriatic ports

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