Ashdod Port company signed last week in Genoa, Italy, a deal with China Shipping group, one of the largest shipping companies in the world. Under the new agreement, China Shipping will dock each week at least one ship at the port of Ashdod

Minister of transport Meir Sheetrit attended last week a ceremony held at the Port of Ashdod for the launching of the Association of Palestinian Marine Transport Customers

Israel and the Palestinian Authority signed last week an agreement to establish a Joint Transport Office that will plan and build joint transport projects

Last week Mr. Schaefer addressed a letter to the Minister of Transport, Mr. Shitrit, asking the Minister to intervene. Schaefer noted that "For over three years the EMTA Israel sector has been collecting "Congestion Surcharge" in Ashdod Port at the extrem

Mr. Gad Schaefer, Chairman of the Israeli Shippers Council, protested to Mr. Peter Webber, Manager EMTA Europe Mediterranean Trade Agreement concerning the wrongful collection of congestion surcharge in Ashdod Port

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

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

COSCO is now offering a weekly, short transit time service with fixed day of loading, connecting Far Eastern ports Shanghai, Hong Kong , Shekou and Singapore with Israel and west Med ports: Naples, Fos, Barcelona, Valencia