Haifa Port lost NIS 35 million in revenue and in addition, had to pay port employees over NIS 12 million in premiums, even though they did not turn out to work

The visit will focus mainly on building business relationships between US and Israeli companies in the biomedical field

This in order to support emerging biotech and healthcare industry. Peltransport Ltd was established in 1947 and it is one of the leading transport organizations in Israel

The MAI also noted that exports in July-August to the EU and Asia were unchanged in dollar terms, however, exports to the US fell by 0.5% and exports to the rest of the world fell by 9%

The visit was part of IPC's policy to widen its ties with the international ports community. Mr. Delwaide visited the port of Haifa and its special project – Hacarmel, a $300 M project

Israel Ports Development & Assets Company Ltd. (IPC) announced last week that NIS 630 million will be invested during the next financial year in a number of development projects

Uzani revealed that the company had began talks with its workers to provide quality service 24 hours per day. The port would move to 23H work in the first stage, and will later move to full 24H

The company also reported NIS 565.7 million revenue in January-July 2006, 16.7% more than the NIS 484.4 million reported in the parallel period of 2005