
01.04.07
Israel Joined the CSI
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Israel’s Customs Directorate cosigned the declaration that will bring CBP’s Container Security Initiative to the ports of Haifa and Ashdod

01.04.07
Holland America Line's flag ship ms "Amsterdam" to visit Ashdod this week
This will happen during itsWorld Cruise 2007. he ms Amsterdam is carrying 1,200 passengers, mostly American, and 700 crew members

20.03.07
It's official - 2006 GDP grew by 5.1%
The figures published last week reveal that in spite of the rather long war in Lebanon, 2006 was one of the most successful years in Israel's economic history

04.12.06
UK wants to renegotiate new bilateral aviation agreement
British Midlands had already informed Israel's Tourism Ministry that it wanted to operate regular flights from Heathrow to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport

13.11.06
Fercam Transporti S.r.l. signed an exclusive agreement with JTI
Fercam is one of Italy's largest privately-owned independent freight and logistics operators. The agreement allows Joint Transport to widen its basket of services to the Israeli market and offer wide range of marine & air services to clients in Italy

13.11.06
Open sky cargo to act as cargo GSA for Alitalia
Alitalia operates a winter schedule of two daily flights from Israel to Italy. Alitalia decided earlier this year to close its TLV cargo office

16.10.06
Israel Post Company buys Siemens sorting machine for NIS 10M
The sorting machines will be able to read handwritten Hebrew and identify the postal stamps on the envelopes. IPC had recently bought two postal sorting machines from Siemens for NIS 40 million

28.08.06
Ministry of Finance: Alitalia was selected to fly government employees abroad
The decision is widely regarded as an embarrassment for El Al which had an effective monopoly over air transportation services for Government employees traveling abroad on official business
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