An additional weekly call will be made at Ashdod thus improving the service between Turkish and Greek ports to Ashdod

During the first six months, Israeli ports handled TEU 1.157 million compared to the TEU 990,000 in the corresnponding period. During the first six months Israeli ports handled 20.9 million tons

Panalpina will offer weekly departures from Hong Kong, Yantian, Ningbo and Shanghai to Ashdod in Israel

The vessel was on its maiden voyage from the Far East to Europe and will call Israel every 60 days

Early this year talks failed to reach an agreement on several outstanding issues, including ownership of land at Haifa Port and actuarial estimates

Yang Ming's newest TEU 6,572, D.W.T 84,200 container vessel, "Yang Ming Mandate" which was delivered only a few weeks ago called last week at Ashdod port

The service from Israel will call at Australia's main maritime gateways: Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney, Freemantle and Melbourne

In 2009 Israel's maritime gateways handled 979,500 loaded TEUs compared to 1,066,700 loaded TEUs in 2008, a drop of 8%