Maersk is to continue to avoid Red Sea routings of it its ships. In an update today, it said that it would continue to send ships via the Cape of Good Hope and around the Africa rather than through the Houthi-threatened Red Sea and Bab el Mandeb Strait. It noted that while it welcomed the EU ASPIDES security operation as a “very positive development to increase the safety in the region,” its internal analysis, as well as insight received from external sources, “still indicates that the risk...
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