{"id":8854,"date":"2013-05-30T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2013\/05\/30\/ashdod-and-haifa-accused-of-box-handling-oligopoly\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:46:20","slug":"ashdod-and-haifa-accused-of-box-handling-oligopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/middle-east\/ashdod-and-haifa-accused-of-box-handling-oligopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashdod and Haifa \u2018accused\u2019 of box handling oligopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Professor David Gilo, the two ports effectively act in concert in the loading and unloading of containers.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement was made against a backdrop of increasing disquiet at the way both ports are run, where port workers earn unusually high salaries.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Gilo has also asked workers&#8217; committees at the ports to desist from trying to derail the privatisation process, assuring them that neither port company will be allowed to operate a projected new port development that will take place in either Ashdod or Haifa.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved plans put forward by the transport minister, Yisrael Katz, which would ultimately see a private operator in place once the new port was up and running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Israels Anti-Trust Authority has written to both Haifa port and Ashdod port to ask them to meet him prior to them being accused of operating a container handling oligopoly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8856,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854\/revisions\/8856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8854"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}