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December 19, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/analysis/60388/eilat-rail-link-provide-alternative-suez-canal

Eilat Rail Link to Provide Alternative to Suez Canal

(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Nathan Jeffay - China is poised to build a railway connecting Eilat to central Israel, and Israel's Ministry of Transportation is currently drafting a memorandum of understanding. It will take 2.5 hours to travel from Eilat to Tel Aviv by train. The most ambitious part of the rail plan involves promoting it as a rival trade route to the Suez Canal, which will avoid the canal's high fees. Israel wants shippers to dock in Eilat, load goods onto the train, and then ship them out of one of the country's Mediterranean ports.

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