In a recent annual cost of living report survey Tel Aviv was ranked the 29th-most expensive city for foreign nationals in the world. The most expensive city in the world for the second consecutive year, is Tokyo

The UAM service, starting on May 10 from Kaohsiung, will replace the company’s current Asia-Pacific-North West Coast (PNW) and Far-East Mediterranean (FEM) services

Tel Aviv climbed sharply to the 24th place from the 38th place in 2008. Jerusalem has also become a more expensive city to live in, moving up 12 spots to the 27th place

The service which will employ 13 TEU 6,000 capacity vessels will call at Ashdod port as the first port of call after crossing the Suez Canal

Cooperation will be on two strings of the NWX and PNX services on the transpacific with immediate effect. Zim will provide three TEU 8,000 to TEU 10,000 vessels from July onward

The first stage will start with regular cargo flights to Nagoya. El Al may start in early 2008 and regular passenger flights shortly afterwards

The silver prize was given to a joint project run by the Israel Port Development and Assets Co together with the Israeli customs authority for the creation of a paperless trading platform

Due to heavy demand for flights to Japan it will begin offering two weekly flights to Tokyo from September 2006