Ben Zion Salman elected chairman for Haifa Port Company

Salman is an experienced transportation person, specializing in transport infrastructure


00:00 ,04.02.2008 From: PORT2PORT

Salman is an experienced transportation person, specializing in transport infrastructure
 
Ben Zion Salman, former Director General of the Ministry of Transport,elected last week as chairman of the Haifa port company.

Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz publicly announced last week that Mr. Ben Zion Salman, had accepted, with immediate effect, an offer to chair the Haifa port's board of directors.

Salman, 59, is an experienced transportation person, specializing in transport infrastructure. He headed, for seven years, the support unit of the Transportation Ministry, “Ma’atz”, which assumed responsibility for all the interurban road system, traffic management and control, planning, development and maintenance of the roads and their safety. Salman also served as the chairman of the National Authority for Road Safety and was a lecturer at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

In a statement issued by the Ministry Mofaz noted that Salman’s experience will be an added value to the port, its users as well as its workers.