The 2,300 ton Israeli Freighter Rimon arrived at the Black Sea port of Odessa with a cargo of 60,000 cases of oranges shipped from Haifa, it was reported here today in a dispatch from Moscow. The dispatch added that this is the first shipment of an order of 150,000 cases of citrus fruit placed by the U.S.S.R. with Israeli dealers.
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