According to CP Ship's spokesman, the decision to nominate a single agent had been made many months ago but only recently a decision was made to appoint A. Rosenfeld Shipping Ltd

Mr. Gad Sheffer Chairman of the Israeli Shippers' Council slammed last week the shipping companies arguing that due to the recent service improvement at the port of Ashdod, there was no justification to charge 7% congestion surcharge

A trade delegation of 23 Israeli business people visited Peru last week as guests of President Alejandro Toledo

The Bank of Israel announced last week that the State of the Economy index rose 0.1% in July, after remaining unchanged in June

The Central Bureau of Statistics ( CBS ) reported last week that industrial output in the first half of 2005 grew by a seasonally adjusted annualized 4.7%, compared with the first half of 2004

Finance Ministry officials said last week that the Ministry was studying the possibility to abolish several tariff inducements given to cargo moving through the port of Eilat

The Israeli Jordanian bilateral chamber of commerce organized last week the first of its kind seminar between the management of the Haifa port company and representatives of the Israeli logistic sector and the Jordanian trading & customs clearing sectors

The report indicated that the company earned $29.9 million in the second quarter ended June 30, a fourfold increase over $7 million earned in the year-ago period and a record for any second quarter