The Liberian-registered freighter “Sea Bird” sailed from Eilat today with a cargo of 300 tons of pipe consigned to Ashdod. She will be the second ship with an Israel cargo to transit the Suez Canal and the first to use the canal to ply directly between two Israeli ports. The first Israeli cargo to pass through the waterway was brought to Eilat from Rumania last week by the Greek freighter Olympos. The Sea Bird, built in Norway last year, is commanded by a Dutch national, Capt, Van Spans. Her crew is made up of Hollanders, West Germans and Ethiopians. After discharging the pipes at Ashdod, she will load an Israeli cargo for the Far East via Suez, sources here said today.
CORRECTION
The name of the World Union of General Zionists was inadvertently omitted from the story in Wednesday’s Bulletin dealing with eight world Zionist groups that called for a campaign to stop the UN anti-Zionist resolution.
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