News / Malaysia bans Zim ships from docking at its ports

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The Gaza conflict’s impact on shipping has well and truly extended beyond the local region after Malaysian prime minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (above) today closed the country’s ports to vessels operated by Israeli carrier Zim.

MrAnwar said an approaching Zim vessel, understood by The Loadstar to be the Liberian-flagged 5,936 teu Zim Europe, heading eastward and due to call at Port Klang on 26 December, would be turned away, as would any Israeli-flagged, -owned or -destined ship.

The Zim Europe was ...