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

Caspi shipping inaugurated last week a weekly RoRo service from Haifa via Limassol to Piraeus. From Piraeus cargo will be dispatched overland to Italy and European destinations

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

The arrival of the vessel marked the company's first round the world service, linking ports in the Far East with Israel and from Israel, through South European ports, to the east coast of the USA

M.A.E management on behalf of Agrexco have reached a Slot Agreement with messes Borchard London on Agrexco's vessels Carmel Ecofresh and Carmel Biotop in which Borchard will purchase space equivalent to 100 TEUs ‘between Marseilles-Israel-Marseilles only

Mr. David Hermesh presented to the guests the latest developments in the port of Haifa and expressed his wish to increase cooperation between the port of Haifa and the main Greek ports

Maersk Israel Ltd. announced last week that the company will upgrade, in mid-August, its Israeli services. According to the company's announcement, all Israeli services will be fed through the new Suez Canal Container Terminal - SCCT container terminal at