China Gets Zionist Contract To Build Giant Port At Ashdod and Land-Bridge Across Palestine To Med.

China is building a port in Ashdod cost of one billion dollars

AS-SAFIR

Hilmi Moussa

Declared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the signing of a contract with a Chinese company to build a new port of Ashdod «we are beginning to achieve strategic gains from our place».
The signing of the contract is one of a number of major projects which Israel agreed with Chinese companies to be completed in the framework of a major development plan for the transportation sector.
The cost of the project to establish a new port in Ashdod, about a billion dollars.
The agreement signed yesterday in Tel Aviv between the Ministry of Transport and the Israeli company «China Harbor» Ports in the presence of Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Transport Minister Israel Katz, as well as Chinese Ambassador to Israel Zhao Yan Feng.
The Chinese company won the bid create a new port, which will be held close to the port of Ashdod current.
Netanyahu stressed in a speech at the signing ceremony of the contract that «the system of relations between Israel and China latent ability, only now begun to materialize itself. It’s not just about the high-tech sector, but also in China itself, where there is a latent capabilities in the areas of agriculture and water. We have a strategic place in the world, we did not win it. So we decided to create a land bridge, rail iron, between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. Will not compete with the Suez Canal, but we will be a complement to it. We understand that most of the trade will continue to pass through the Suez Canal ».
The words of these Netanyahu in an attempt to allay fears among Egyptians of a comprehensive Israeli plan to create alternatives to the Suez Canal.
It should be noted that the new port in Ashdod is part of a larger project to modernize the ports, including the Israeli port of Haifa and Eilat and the establishment of a network of modern rail lines between Eilat and all of Ashdod and Haifa to facilitate the conversion of Palestine into a land bridge between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.
It is known that when the Suez Canal was closed, Israel has established a partnership with the Shah’s Iran to build an oil pipeline between Eilat and Ashkelon for the marketing of Iranian oil.
Netanyahu added, turning to the Chinese: «Here lies an enormous capacity. We Sdo busiest port in international transport. We want to be your partners. This is also important for Israeli reasons, where there is a big change here. We develop a port in the city passed a new experience and connect the city with the veins of international transport. When we open the Ashdod global trade, we give priority economic and reduce prices, product prices will fall. Body and thanked all of the care of the matter and I am waiting for the next reform ».
He said Transport Minister Israel Katz said the project is part of a plan to reform the transport sector in Israel and this opens new business opportunities and it is just phase within several stages. He hoped the declaration until the end of the month for a company that will stabilize the tender for the construction of the new port of Haifa, adding that there is a plan to create other new ports in Israel. He explained that the cost of new projects ranging between 12 and 15 billion shekels (about 4 billion dollars).
The ambassador said the Chinese air Ping said that «this day of celebration for me where she participated in the signing ceremony. This is an important project. Prime Minister met with the Chinese President and the chemistry between them grew. These projects can provide opportunities and pursuant to the two peoples. China is the largest market in the world, and we have a huge manpower and qualified. If the two countries have worked together, we will have a better future for the two peoples. China is the second largest economy in the world, which is not to exceed America after a very long time ».
And continued negotiations with the Chinese company to create a new port of Ashdod for several months at a cost of about one billion dollars, where the business will begin before the end of this year on the basis of the opening of the port to work before 2021.
The government has published tenders for the construction of the port in the year 2013 and published bidding to run the port for 25 years. The company introduced a cheaper Chinese tender to build the port of Ashdod, which will contain the quays along the 1050 meters north of the harbor breakwater and the current length of 2800 meters.
Previously, Israel should have negotiated with the company to build a huge CCCC railway line between Eilat and the Mediterranean Sea. And most likely will arrive in this line to the port of Ashdod. It is important to know that the company «China Harbor» is a subsidiary of CCCC infrastructure. Israel has been rumored at the time, and contrary to the statements of Netanyahu, that the land bridge between the Mediterranean and Red will be to compete with the Suez Canal.