{"id":626638,"date":"2026-09-25T02:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/626638\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T02:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:18:10","slug":"hapag-lloyd-fimi-sweeten-zim-bid-with-more-israel-routes-and-ships-for-emergencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/626638\/","title":{"rendered":"Hapag-Lloyd, FIMI sweeten ZIM bid with more Israel routes and ships for emergencies"},"content":{"rendered":"

The main improvement in the proposal is the allocation of additional shipping routes to the Far East for ZIM Israel, on top of the three routes to Europe and the United States included in the previous offer.<\/p>\n

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As Calcalist previously reported, Hapag-Lloyd\u2019s CEO arrived in Israel on Wednesday ahead of the submission of the joint document, only part of which was disclosed in a statement to the media.<\/p>\n

Under the proposed deal structure, ZIM Israel would be separated from ZIM\u2019s global operations and sold to FIMI.<\/p>\n

The statement included vaguely worded language saying that \u201cauthorized ZIM employee teams responsible for cargo destined for and departing from Israel will be transferred to ZIM Israel,\u201d although the practical meaning of the clause remains unclear. The proposal also includes a commitment to increase the number of Israeli seafarers.<\/p>\n

Another improvement in the offer states that \u201cZIM Israel will own a core fleet of container ships and will have access to Hapag-Lloyd\u2019s global container fleet under a long-term commercial agreement. This will increase the capacity available for transporting refrigerated cargo and other essential goods to and from Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the number of vessels ZIM Israel would receive under the deal has not changed: 16 ships, 12 of which the state could requisition during a crisis, as needed, through the golden share it holds.<\/p>\n

The proposal also states that \u201cHapag-Lloyd and FIMI listened carefully to the position of the State of Israel and formulated significant improvements to the offer, with the goal of establishing a strong shipping company.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The main improvement in the proposal is the allocation of additional shipping routes to the Far East for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-626638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}