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Israel: Israel Transportation Profile 2012

2012/03/14

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Israel Transportation Profile 2012

Shipping Report Q4 2010

Israel's ports are making a good recovery from the downturn, with container volumes through ports increasing year-on-year (y-o-y). In 2009 the country's total container throughput reached 2.032mn 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) - a y-o-y decline of 2.4%. H1 data indicate that a recovery is afoot, with total box throughput at Israel's ports up y-o-y by 16.9% to 1.157mn TEU. This is also an improvement on H108's figures, when the country's ports handled a total of 1.092mn TEUs.

BMI's Israel Container Shipping Key Views

  • - Ports throughput equally exposed to macro and micro shocks
  • - Small population but young and expanding
  • - FTA with Mercosur gives impetus to further FTAs
  • - Expansion and port privatisation plans in the pipeline that will enable the country's ports to upgrade and expand to meet demand
  • - Zim was bailed out in 2009, but continues to play a global role in the box shipping sector and plays a vital role in Israel's trade links

Although H110 figures show a y-o-y recovery, but a full recovery to pre-downturn levels, BMI is still wary of what the rest of 2010 holds for the nation's container facilities. The country's ports are exposed to both domestic and international shocks, and we believe that a slowing in the global trade recovery is on the cards that would affect Israel's port throughput in H210 and into 2011.

BMI's Global Container Shipping Key Views:

  • - Y-o-y recovery, but not near 2008 levels

 

 

Transportation in Israel is well developed, and is continuously being upgraded to meet the demands of population growth, political factors, the Israel Defense Forces, tourism and increased traffic.

Israel has 18,096 kilometers (11,244 mi) of paved roads, and 2.4 million motor vehicles.The number of motor vehicles per 1,000 persons was 324, relatively low with respect to developed countries. Israel has 5,715 buses on scheduled routes, operated by several carriers, the largest of which is Egged, serving most of the country. Railways stretch across 949 kilometers (590 mi) and are operated solely by government-owner Israel Railways (All figures are for 2008). Following major investments beginning in the early-to-mid 1990s, the number of train passengers per year has grown from 2.5 million in 1990, to 35 million in 2008; railways are also used to transport 6.8 million tons of cargo, per year.

Israel is served by two international airports, Ben Gurion International Airport, the country's main hub for international air travel near Tel Aviv-Yafo, Ovda Airport in the south, as well as several small domestic airports. Airports served 11.1 million passengers (entries and departures) in 2008, 11 million passing through Ben Gurion airport

On the Mediterranean coast, Haifa Port is the country's oldest and largest port, while Ashdod Port is one of the few deep water ports in the world built on the open sea. In addition to these, the smaller Port of Eilat is situated on the Red Sea, and is used mainly for trading with Far East countries

Transport & Communications

The importance of the transport and communications sector very much exceeds its mere share in the economy's statistics, as it is an infrastructure industry serving all other branches of the economy as well as households. It is a service rather than a production sector, and is growing - as is the case in all modern economies - faster than the production industries. A remarkable growth in the aviation part of this sector took place in recent years (thanks to a parallel increase in tourism) but the growth of the communications sector has been even faster.

Transport and communications contributed over 8 percent (in 2001) to the GNP, constituted some 5 % of exports of goods and services, and employed 6 percent of the country's labor force. Thirty-seven percent of its product originates from land transportation, 10 percent from shipping, 7 % from aviation, 35 % from communications and the rest from various services, including storage and parking.

Since the early 1950s the total gross tonnage of the merchant fleet has grown more than tenfold, while air carriers now fly more than 100 times as many passengers. During the same period, the road length was doubled, the number of buses more than tripled and the number of trucks increased tenfold.

Airports - with paved runways Total: 
30
Airports - with unpaved runways Total: 
17
Transportation - note: