Comment / Canal-ysis: the world’s waterways in focus for 2025

The beginning of 2025 finds Israel now in a direct fight with the Houthis, exchanging aerial bombardments, missiles and drone strikes with the Iran proxy group that has been menacing shipping and denying access to the Suez Canal for most traffic since late 2023.

Now, Israel has pitched a full-scale ground invasion of Yemen to the UN Security Council, in the hope of destroying the Houthis once and for all – something tried and failed by Saudi ...