News / Resumption of Suez transits in doubt after return of Red Sea hostilities

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17/03/2025

Hope for a resumption of Suez Canal transits by container lines were dented over the weekend, after the US and Yemen’s rebel Houthis group traded missile attacks.

Today, Houthis leaders said they had launched a wave of missile and drone attacks on US warships, following a ...

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Vincy Sebastian Kannath
March 18, 2025 at 4:05 pm
The Suez reopening is a favourable scenario for carriers and if it does, everybody knows who loses Millions of USD in the process. The overcapacity is absorbed today by the COGH routing but Suez route resumption would mean extremely excess supply of capacity v. demand. Shippers and Consignees are paying for the detour via COGH and there isn’t enough done to support the customer because at the end the average consumer pays for the high shipping cost.

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