It’s context and directly related. If the revised/ renegotiated UNSC proposal by UAE gets up later today, there are indications that maybe the Houthis will relent and the Red Sea route will be safer.
Meanwhile, for those concerned at humanitarian issues, the situation in Sudan is very bad. 150k children were forced from their homes in less than one week, 1.5 million have left to neighbouring countries. The UN estimates that over 7 million could be displaced, the largest ever.
There’s a fine line here. The Red Sea shipping blockade is a regional reaction to the Gaza events. I think it’s required to discuss regional reactions to Gaza, while avoiding the details and judgement of the events on the ground.
Difficult line to walk.
Egypt has recently gone on a neoliberal streak. Cut services and privatised many state-owned enterprises. On the back of this, they’ve blown billions on the New Administrative Capital project, which will not generate a positive ROI for decades at least.
Interesting times ahead for them. They’ll be desperate to reopen the Suez Canal
Shipping lines who have said they will avoid the canal route:
Hapag Lloyd
OOCL
MSC
Maersk
There’s some big names in that list.
Yeah, but it’s estimated the Grand Egyptian Museum is only 6 months away from opening.
(For those unaware, that’s basically been the forecast for the past decade,)
My google search shows Hapag Lloyd is Hamburg based , German owned; OOCL HK HQ; MSC Geneva HQ; Maersk Copenhagen HQ , Danish owned?
A ship has been struck by a drone 200NM off the coast of India, a substantial escalation.
And footage from the ship of the damage.
https://x.com/longlivemetalpj/status/1738578891487539663?s=46&t=A5S-z5IJslFoC5SVN0Jodg
Bloody lucky it landed in a crew cabin!
And that the crew member seems to have not been in that cabin.
Note this is of course only one health measurement: what’s your water like, what health care can you get, etc.
The southeast Asian nation of Myanmar is on the brink of disaster after the country descended into violence, with resistance groups battling the military junta who seized control of government.
More than 18 million people, some third of the country’s population, need urgent humanitarian aid, the United Nations has warned.
Maersk has now suspended passage through the Red Sea for 48 hours after one of its merchant ships en route from Singapore to Port Suez was reportedly attacked by Houthis in small boats . US Central Command tweeted that its naval helicopters had destroyed 3 or 4 small boats firing at the ship.
This, after Maersk and another liner had announced they would recommence some cargo traffic through the Red Sea.
Princess Mary to become the Queen of Denmark as Frederik’s mother abdicates the crown to her eldest son. Quite a journey from the ol’ Slipp Inn all those years ago.
Only time in thirty years of business that we sea freight out anything and it is on a container ship on its way to Fos sur mer then through Suez Canal. So if APL Miami sinks, then it is fortunate that we took out extra insurance.
First person ever to break Tetris. 13 year old.
Maersk has now suspended all cargo traffic through the Red Sea and has rerouted ships already in the Canal to return to the Med and go the long way round.
They need to start convoying with warship escort, similar to WWI/WWII.
