March 11, 2024
Zim Shipping Services Ships Ad Brochure Israel Shalom
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Zim Shipping Services Ships Advertising Brochure Israel S.S. ShalomFrom a collection of vintage cruise plans, advertising brochures, deck plans,schedules and rates, and general information about ZIM passenger lines Zim Shipping Services, Ships, Israel and Palestine, Jewish, JudaicaZim Integrated Shipping Services (formerly Zim American Israeli Shipping and ZIM Israel Navigation Company, is the biggest cargo shipping company in Israel, and 13th largest in the world. The company's North American headquarters are based in Norfolk, Virginia. History ZIM was founded in 1945, by the Jewish Agency and the Histadrut (General Federation of Laborers in the Land of Israel). The first ship was purchased in partnership with Harris and Dixon (based in London) in 1947. This vessel was refurbished, renamed SS Kedmah, and sailed to Palestine in the summer of 1947. During her first years, her main task was transporting hundreds of thousands of immigrants to the emerging state. Some of the other ships that had been used for clandestine immigration before the establishment of Israel as a state were confiscated by the British mandate authorities and later joined the company's fleet. The company continued to purchase more ships, among them SS Negba, SS Artza and SS Galila. During the 1948 war, the company was the sole maritime connection with the state
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