Global trade

Middle East reroutes its energy networks as region navigates shifting sands - analysis

Investments in new pipelines and energy products will be a key feature in the new regional order.

Gas flares burn at the Rumaila oil field during an armed patrol by Iraqi Energy Police in Basra, Iraq, June 8, 2026.
Factories are silhouetted during sunset, in Handan, Hebei province, China April 7, 2026.

China issues sweeping new controls of overseas trade, counter sanctions with new restrictions

View of Elbit Systems offices in Jerusalem on December 3, 2024.

Elbit Systems secures $1.4b. European defense contract as backlog passes $30b.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi Delivers A Speech At The AI Impact Summit In New Delhi On February 19, 2026

Modi-Meloni meeting puts Italy at center of India’s Europe strategy


Bahrain Begins Construction of US Trade Zone

Economic analyst to The Media Line: The project will increase US-Bahraini trade to $4 billion.

 Foundation stone-laying ceremony for the United States Trade Zone in Salman Industrial City, Bahrain, Feb. 20, 2022.

Israeli company launches AI solution for maritime shipping

Windward’s new solution enables freight forwarders to improve efficiency and scalability with automated data collection and analysis, improving efficiency in maritime freight.

THE ‘EVER GIVEN’ container ship became lodged in the Suez Canal, blocking maritime traffic for almost a week.

China passes US as Israel’s largest source of imports in 2021

Last year, Israel imported $10.7 billion in goods from China, compared with $7.7 billion in 2020 and $8.2 Billion from the United States.

 A cargo ship unloads at Ningbo-Zhoushan Port in Zhoushan, in the Zhejiang Province of China, Jan. 19, 2022.

A new path for the world economy - opinion

Economies need to be much more local and regional; the economic model of cheap goods made in Asia to be sold in the Walmarts of America is already anachronistic.

Economy

Israeli exports expected to top record $120b. in 2021

Two-third drop in export of tourism services blamed for most of 2020’s decline.

PART OF AN electronic board displaying market data is seen at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in November.

Live Now: Does Globalization bring world closer together or farther apart?

Boris Mints Institute webinar addressing the challenges of Globalization

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Coronavirus has changed globalization’s trajectory - comment

On March 16, Nordstrom’s 380 stores in the US and Canada bustled with typical Monday activity. Just one day later, all of those stores went dark.

The EU has been and is at the avant-garde of globalization.

ZIM Announces the Establishment of ZIMARK

New company to provide scanning technology for the logistics and supply chain industries

 Left-to-right: Sodyo CEO Alon Raz,  ZIM CEO Eli Glickman, and ZIMARK CEO Karin Levy

'Black market' emerges to dodge unofficial Turkish-Saudi trade blockade

A review of official trade data shows that in the first two months of the year Turkey's exports to Saudi Arabia plunged 93% annually to $38 million.

 Turkish seismic research vessel Oruc Reis sails in the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey, October 3, 2018

Suez Canal ship still stuck, tugs and dredgers still struggling to free it

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has ordered preparations for the possible removal of some of the ship's cargo to help refloat it, SCA Chairman Osama Rabie told Egypt's Extra News.

Stranded container ship Ever Given, one of the world's largest container ships, is seen after it ran aground, in Suez Canal, Egypt March 26, 2021.