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ZIM (shipping company)

Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd., commonly known as ZIM (Hebrew: צים, tsim; a biblical word meaning "a fleet of ships", Numbers 24:24), is a publicly held Israeli international cargo shipping company, and one of the top 20 global carriers.[1] The company's headquarters are in Haifa, Israel; Founded in 1945, ZIM has traded on the New York Stock Exchange since 2021.[2][3][4] From 1948 to 2004, it traded as ZIM Israel Navigation Company.

This article is about the shipping company. For the fictional character and television series, see Invader Zim.

Company type

Public

NYSE: ZIM

Shipping

Haifa, Mandatory Palestine
June 7, 1945 (June 7, 1945)

Haifa
,
Israel

Worldwide

Eli Glickman (CEO)
Yair Seroussi (Chairman)

Container shipping, Refrigerated Cargo,
Logistics

Increase US$ $10.73 billion (2021)

Increase US$ $4.65 Billion (2021)

Kenon Holdings

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Annual turnover 2018: $3.2 billion

TEU's Carried in 2018: 2,914,000 million

Total TEU Capacity (owned and chartered vessels): 344,460 TEU's

Containers: over 547,000 TEUs of various types

About 70 vessels, 13 fully or partly owned

Ports of Call: 180 throughout the world, with 10 strategically located hubs

Services: Over 70 lines and services, mostly on a weekly, fixed-day basis, covering all major trade routes with regional connections

Employees: ~4200

Regional Headquarters: Haifa (Israel), Norfolk, Virginia (USA), Liverpool (United Kingdom), Hamburg (Germany), Hong Kong

Agents: ZIM has more than 170 offices and representatives in over 100 countries throughout the world

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Israel Corporation

Zodiac Maritime

Edmond Wilhelm Brillant

Top container shipping companies

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Official website

by Chaim Bar-Tikva. Haifa, 1996

Zim Israel Navigation Company Ltd.: The Fifty-Years Success Story of a Shipping Company, 1945–1995

by Kobi Cohen-Hattab. Israel Studies, Volume 20, Number 2, Summer 2015, pp. 110–134, Indiana University Press

The Test of Maritime Sovereignty: The Establishment of the Zim National Shipping Company and the Purchase of the Kedmah, 1945–1952