The Belt and Road initiative proposed by China perfectly meets the demand of the epochal progress as well as each country’s urge for development, so it has won universal approval and prevalent praise from the international community. Israel, a world-recognized great power in the fields of technology, military, diplomacy, economy and education, functions as an important place along the Belt and Road, so it is necessary for Chinese enterprises to promote the realization of the Belt and Road initiative. Just recently, as the pioneer enterprise in construction machinery industry of China, XCMG dispatches its crawler crane group to participate in the infrastructure construction at Ashdod Port.

The new port project at Ashdod is planned to consume 3.3 billion Shekel (about 930 million USD), to build a shipment wharf of 360 meters, a seawall of 600 meters, a revetment of 1480 meters, a container wharf frontage of 1230 meters, a operational wharf of 770 meters, and a hydraulic reclamation of land of 620 000 square meters. With historic significance, the project is an opportunity for China to consolidate its partnership with Israel, while producing profound impact to Israel’s economic development in the future. This project will usher China through the portal of Israel market.

The Ashdod new port project in Israel, contracted by the Chinese builder, boasts as a highlight in the field of large scale infrastructure cooperation between China and Israel, where XCMG equipment in group serve the site construction, including XGC800 crawler crane that is specially manufactured for this project. It is notable that, 800 tonnage crawler crane is the largest equipment commanded by the contractor for the construction of wharf and seawall at Israel Ashdod port, as well as the mainstay machinery catching much reliance from the project department and mainly used for hoisting riprap and Antifer (concrete block against waves). The scene of the construction site is especially spectacular, showcasing China’s manufacturing capability sufficiently.

The perfect performance of XCMG crawler cranes in West Asia and North Africa embodies the overseas customers’ trust to XCMG products, and elevates the awareness and reputation of XCMG brand in foreign market, which provides an opportunity for XCMG products to expand world market further while setting a yardstick for out-going Chinese enterprises.

One side is the hub country along the Belt & Road, while another side is the pioneering enterprise in Chinese machinery industry, so China XCMG participating in the construction of Israel Ashdod new port will definitely produce the effect “1+1>2”.