Port of Ashdod

The Port of Ashdod is one in all Israel's two predominant cargo ports. The port is positioned in Ashdod, about forty kilometers south of Tel Aviv, adjacent the mouth of the Lachish River. Its established order drastically enhanced the country's port capacity. It handles the largest quantity of cargo containers annually of all Israeli ports. Ships wearing humanitarian useful resource for the Gaza Strip also unload their cargo at Ashdod.

The need to open some other deep water port arose in Israel's early years, when it became clear that the enlargement of the prevailing ports of Haifa and Eilat couldn't ensure green dealing with of the increasing extent of export and import cargoes. The Port of Ashdod stays one of the few deep water ports in the international to be built on the open sea, and its construction involved top notch engineering challenges. The selection on the vicinity and production of the port become preceded by using a maritime and climatic survey which showed the engineering feasibility of its production.