(Hai Fe) - Many ships have been waiting in line at the port of Haifa for many days, a sight that intrigues many of the travelers overlooking the bay. We tried to understand the reason for this phenomenon, and found out that these are ships waiting to enter Israel Shipyards, the first private port in Israel. Due to the heavy load in the shipyards, the Port of Haifa came to the rescue to help reduce the queue and promote unloading and loading at the docks.
Israel Shipyards, the largest shipyard in Israel, is located in the eastern part of the Kishon Port in Haifa and covers an area of 335 dunams. The shipyard, which leases its space from the Israel Ports Company, is equipped with a dock 900 meters long and a water depth of 12 meters, which allows the docking of large vessels. Since its establishment, the shipyard has been used as an important center for the maintenance, construction and repair of ships, and since the activity of a private port has also been added to it, the load on its facilities has increased.
The Port of Haifa, Israel's main seaport, is active all year round and serves the national economy in diverse fields: the transfer of goods, vehicles, fuel, nuclear and chemicals, alongside passenger port services. In 2021, it employed over 800 people, and it continues to expand and develop.
As part of the efforts to deal with the ship queues, the port is expected to open three new docks soon. This development will help reduce the existing load and may even eliminate the queues altogether, while improving the services provided to the ships and the port's customers.

While the port people are working to solve the problem, the travelers on the Lui Promenade, Yaffe Nof Street and the other observation points overlooking the port, enjoy the sight of the waiting ships. For many, it is a symbol of an active routine and an ongoing life.
The sight of large vessels filling the bay connects viewers to the activity of Israel's maritime economy and provides a sense of stability, especially in times of challenges and crises.
It seems that soon a solution will be found that will allow ships to unload their cargo quickly, but until then, we will continue to enjoy the unique sight of Haifa Bay full of activity and traffic.
Israel Shipyards has not yet given a response.

This is nonsense, the operational queue is not related to blocking but to sanctions and malfunctions in the operation of the ports.
Non-functioning port suckers do not bring goods at all
Hello everyone.
The issue of establishing the new ports in Israel, globalization, the scope of their activities, etc., are issues with a lot of data that must be known and understood.
I don't think it's right to solve them in several sentences.
Responding here very briefly and clearly, not by bringing all the related information.
peace birds,
Cargo movement between the ports of the world is subject to many different influences, such as: changes in economic situations, infrastructure development and construction, wars and much more. Ports all over the world are built and prepared for changing daily activity. There are periods of heavy workloads and there are situations where the platforms, or some of them, will be empty.
The "Chinese" port was established in advance to transport containers. It does not have a means of transportation from suppliers for general cargo, that is what various cargoes that are not in containers are called, such as: iron, wood, rolls of paper, etc. It is possible, for lack of choice, to transport these cargoes in the "Chinese" port, but the rate of output will be very slow. The fact that there are periods when he is unemployed, partly stems from this fact. It is clear that this issue was clear in advance to the developers of the port and to the owners who purchased it.
The reason that many ships are anchored at sea, sometimes comes from large workloads in the ports, many times from the fact that the storage areas are full to capacity. Cargo cannot be unloaded if there are no storage areas to store them. The rate of "pulling" cargo from storage areas depends on many external factors. For example, due to the war and lack of workers, construction slowed down a lot. Building materials in large volumes remained in the storage areas of the ports.
The fact that docks are empty and ships are waiting at sea has nothing to do with an Italian strike. Regev, some of the ships waiting at sea are intended for designated ports/docks, such as: Dagon silo, chemical terminal, etc.
Regarding putting a finger in the eye of the committees.
The issue of the real need for more ports in the country is very complex. Much more complex than solving it in this sentence.
The ports were established and built for a number of reasons. In part, estimates of cargo transportation loads in the coming years and in part to bring about a solution to the pressures of workers and the Histadrut on the government ministries and the port authorities.
Also the issue of the elimination of various branches related to shipping by government agencies (the elimination of shipping, elimination, the elimination of ships and the elimination of the merchant fleet), is a complex issue that in order to understand it in depth requires an in-depth discussion. In any case, each of them did not happen between now and now and each of them had many reasons I do not claim that the present and past governments have always acted correctly and with a correct vision of the future, but it is not correct in my opinion to write these sentences without understanding all the data related to them.
Merav Asulin Hello,
You are right that everything in people's lives is money. Money drives the world and is one of the biggest points of contention in our world.
The angle of view of who should pay whom and how much, varies according to the person's status (employee, employer, etc.).
Not accurate about an Italian strike and not clear who you think wants to eat it all alone.
Shabbat Shalom to all
The Chinese port is empty most of the time. Sometimes a small ship or a maximum of two are anchored there. Today, December 20, one ship docks. It turns out that there was no need for it in the first place.
This morning an old and small passenger ship enters the port from Israel Shipyards. Some of the docks in the port are empty. And over 20 ships are anchored in the sea. what is the reason The reason may be an "Italian strike"..... If they had made decisions regarding the demolition of the Gulf and the construction of the Sinai port, and the sale of the Haifa port to an Indian tycoon, they thought that they would bypass the committees and put a finger in their eye.... Just as they destroyed Israeli shipping, they eliminated Zim and eliminated the Merchant Navy…. Now they don't have enough workers to run the platforms. They have no cranes, no storage space, no laborers for the daily work at the port....
It's a traffic jam. What is beautiful about it?
The port does not provide fast enough service, so there is a traffic jam. The times of the delay are enormous and reach the pocket of all of us.
The reporter completely ignores it
Irrelevant answers... it's all about money. Since the Chinese port has been there, there has been an Italian strike there... they want to eat cake alone
why is it happening?
Ships waiting outside the ports are usually waiting to enter the port, not necessarily the shipyards.
The wait could be for any one of the ports: Haifa/Kishon ports, the "Chinese" port, the chemical port and a platform for unloading bulkers that serves the Dagon silo.
The Port of Haifa did not "come to the aid of the queue and promoting unloading...." The port of Haifa willingly attracts every ship it can accept. The port competes with the other ports in the north for "attracting" ships to unload at its docks.
The waiting of ships outside the ports is in many cases due to reasons that are not related to the load on the docks.
There is a problem of lack of space to store cargo. The storage areas in ports are full and there is no room to store additional cargo. There are several reasons for this. inter alia:
The storage areas are flooded with passenger cars that were imported and not released,
Lack of trucks to "pull" the loads from the storage areas, mainly construction materials.
lack of truck drivers,
Slow work progress on construction sites due to a lack of workers which causes a reduction in the need for construction materials.
I often pass inside the Kishon, on a boat, and I have never seen the Israeli shipyards in the activity of unloading or loading ships...???!
It is also surprising that the Chinese port is at best a quarter occupied.
Where did the data and information you brought come from?
And when will the port of Haifa have a respectable and proper passenger terminal instead of the makeshift with tents and sheds that exist today?
When there will be respectable passengers 😉
just
The truth is that the volume of passengers in recent years (and the earlier ones as well) does not justify such an investment.
In production processes as well as in work processes it is common to mark a "bottleneck". It is about an activity or a resource in short supply that limits the entire process.
Doubling the number of ports in Israel probably more or less doubled the docks and equipment of the port itself.
Unfortunately, there is not enough reference to the issue of routers and tugs - there the change is minor if at all. This is a bottleneck that existed even before the addition of the ports - and was therefore completely expected.
Is this a lack of professionalism on the part of the decision makers? their negligence? in interest?
In my opinion, none of the possibilities should be ruled out.
Before you complained that because of the war there are no ships in Haifa Bay, now you complain that there are too many ships :-)))
There was not a single complaint in the article, I wonder how you came to this conclusion? :)))