FROM shipping illegal immigrants in a flotilla of rusty hulks to operating one of the world's 10 largest container fleets and reporting a pre-tax profit of US$38 million is the kind of rags to riches tale you might associate with a Hong Kong shipping magnate.
In fact, it is the story of Israel's Zim shipping company, which started in June 1945 with a cargo of Jewish refugees from war-ravaged Europe on their way to British-run Palestine.
From that humble start, grew a national carrier which operated 80 vessels last year, 38 of them owned and the rest chartered as needed. Its worldwide network of shipping lines takes it to 250 ports of call.
PLA, Chinese firm release satellite images showing US military build-up around Iran
Imagery of combat aircraft and support planes at bases in the region comes amid reports that Washington appears ready to strike Tehran
Images posted on social media on Thursday by Chinese commercial satellite analysis company MizarVision show the latest American deployments at bases in Qatar, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
The images from Jordan show 18 F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters and six EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft on the tarmac of the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base. The post did not say when or by which satellites the images were taken.
China scrambles fighters to confront US warplanes based in South Korea
The American warplanes made a rare approach towards China’s air defence identification zone over the Yellow Sea, local media reported
US and Chinese fighter jets have engaged in a rare stand-off over the Yellow Sea, according to media reports in South Korea.
This comes at a time when the United States has been trying to shift the focus of its troops stationed in the country away from North Korea to concentrate more on China.
The incident on Wednesday involved around 10 US F-16s, which took off from Osan Air Base around 65km (40 miles) south of Seoul and flew west over the Yellow Sea as part of a training operation, according to reports citing South Korean military sources.
As the F-16s approached China’s air defence identification zone (ADIZ), Beijing responded by scrambling its own fighter jets, in what South Korea’s MBC news described as a “brief” face-off.
The US planes did not enter the Chinese ADIZ and the Chinese planes did not enter the South Korean one.
The US has not released any information about Wednesday’s operation, but it is rare for its planes to approach the Chinese air defence zone over the Yellow Sea.
