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Ashdod Port Company Ltd.

Port Services, Ship Loading and Unloading, Freight Transport, Passenger and Logistic Services

Profile

Founding Year 2004
Address P.O.B. 9001, Ashdod 77191- View Map
Phone 08-8517604/5
Fax 08-8517632
Email [email protected]
Social Networks
Company Website www.ashdodport.co.il
   

Managers

Shaul Schneider, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Ashdod Port Company Ltd.

Shaul Schneider

Chairman of the Board of Directors

Eli Bar Yosef, CEO, Ashdod Port Company Ltd.

Eli Bar Yosef

CEO

About Ashdod Port Company Ltd.


Ashdod Port is the Port of Israel, and the country's largest and most advanced port. Ashdod Port is a profitable business with work practices based on norms of transparency, financial reporting, proper management, hiring workers on merit and through equal opportunity public tenders. The Company's profits are invested in equipment to shorten and streamline logistical processes for customers, while developing the port.

Full Service

Ashdod Port provides customers with a full package of services, including logistic services such as

  • Berthing/un-berthing ships
  • Providing full ship-handling services
  • Unloading storage and loading cargoes
  • Container storage
  • Passenger ships anchorage infrastructure providing quality service for passengers and baggage handling
  • The Port hinterland is equipped with warehouses for unloading and storing containers.

As well, there are citrus and agricultural export warehouses, cold storage, a grain silo, container repair and cleaning services, etc.

Advantages of Ashdod Port

  • Proximity to the center and south of Israel, easy access to roads
  • Proximity to the Suez Canal
  • Extensive and advanced infrastructures, including a computerized container port managed by TOS systems
  • Extensive warehouse areas
  • Proximity to the railway
  • Innovative computerized port gate for entrance and exit of trucks
  • A quay with a water depth of 15.5 meters, enabling access for huge ships.

Improving Customer Service

The Company maintains a strict and uncompromising service policy. In recent years, the Company has made significant investments in equipment and infrastructures, and aims to reduce waiting times for ships by using new, sophisticated technological equipment, expanding the workforce, and developing new docks and other innovative service initiatives.

Developing Business Systems and Customer Relations

The Company also invests significant resources in order to consolidate, manage and strengthen contacts with customers in Israel and abroad, in shipping and logistics. Ashdod Port emphasizes customer service and providing a direct and swift response to customers’ needs while doing everything in its power to ensure customer satisfaction and implementing many operations aimed at improving procedures, greater efficiency, and expanding services.

Ashdod Port is a significant link in the supply chain and handles the removal of obstacles that are not under its direct responsibility, for the benefit of its customers, who are considered its partners. Ashdod Port strives to create an overall synergy in handling procedures, based on its understanding that it is a single synchronized logistic system.

Innovation at the Port of Ashdod

Ashdod Port is undergoing an unprecedented revolution and entering a world of innovation. The traditional and more senior industry has opened up to a new sea of opportunities, a blue ocean for startups.

As part of its innovation incubator, 60 startup companies operate in five main areas: operations, logistics, energy, security, and cyber.

In addition, under the innovation incubator, 12 startup companies operate under a unique acceleration program in collaboration with the 500Global venture capital fund.

The innovation system operates in Israel and around the world by opening innovation embassies at various ports around the world and signing strategic agreements with large economic entities, global chambers of commerce, shipping companies, and venture capital funds that give exposure to Israel’s blue and white technology in the world.

Advanced Technological Services

TOS System

TOS (Terminal Operating System) gives Ashdod Port a clear competitive advantage through the efficiently controlled port management, thus reaching maximum equipment and resources exploitation and improving customer service.

TOS advantages:

  • Increasing availability and significantly shortening waiting times for loading and unloading of ships and trucks
  • Receiving the latest information and fully tracking operations of ships and containers
  • Creating direct contact between the port and the ship’s agents in real-time operations of the ship
  • Enhancing coordination between customers and ships’ planning.

Website

The Company’s website offers clients a complete service package, including information and reports on ship and cargo activities at the Port.

Automatic Entrance Gateway

The gateway is the central automatic gateway for trucks, operated by advanced computerization, including computerized identification of license plate numbers, containers and biometric identification of drivers

  • The gate has 32 lanes, each with weighing machinery for trucks
  • Electronic messaging for rapid flow of trucks to and from the port
  • Camera tracking of trucks with checking procedures, including messages to locate containers sent during transit.

New Grain Terminal

The Company is upgrading quay 21. This is a unique project that will conclude with 2 state-of-the-art terminals – a container terminal and a grain terminal.

In 2022, construction of the new grain terminal was completed, which was equipped with state-of-the-art grain offloading cranes and a 2.3 km long conveyor to transport the cargo directly to silos outside the port. in an efficient and clean manner. The unloading rate at the grain terminal will be up to 8 times the existing situation – up to 1,200 tons per hour.

Five cranes, among the most modern in the world, were purchased for the new container terminal.

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