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ZIM Israel Navigation: The World's Luckiest Company?

How One Company Vacated the Twin Towers Days Before 9/11

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Jeremy Slayden
Sep 06, 2025
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ZIM American-Israeli Shipping (“ZIM”)—the predecessor of today’s ZIM Integrated Shipping Services—was 49% owned by the Israeli government at the time of the 9/11 attacks, and the other 49% was owned by the Israel Corporation, a company founded by the Israeli government. In 2004, that stake was sold to the Ofer Brothers Group, making the family the compa…

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