1/ Yahya Saree, the spokesman for the Houthi military, announced that "the naval forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces, with the help of God Almighty, targeted and operated with appropriate naval missiles on a merchant vessel, MSC UNITED". The targeting of the vessel was initiated after the crew rejected the calls of the naval forces for the third time and repeated fierce warning messages.
2/ Subsequently, MSC Mediterranean Shipping, the world's largest container shipping company, confirmed that one of its container ships, the MSC United VIII, had been attacked on Tuesday while transiting the southern Red Sea, confirming earlier claims by Yemen's Houthi forces.MSC said it had informed a nearby Coalition task force ship of the attack and had conducted "evasive manoeuvres". ". The Liberian-flagged vessel was en route from King Abdullah Port, Saudi Arabia, to Karachi, Pakistan.The MSC statement said that "at this time, all crew members are safe, no injuries have been reported, and a thorough assessment of the vessel is underway."
3/ Highlights! MSC also added that MSC's priority "remains the protection of the lives and safety of our seafarers and until their safety is ensured, MSC will continue to divert vessels transiting Suez via the Cape of Good Hope".
4/ Whether Maersk, which is also part of the 2M alliance, will reassess the situation, we will continue to monitor the situation, subject to official releases and facts. Stay tuned to the most shipping, and don't get lost in shipping.
5/Firstly, the behaviour of the system that we apparently observe is determined by the structure of the system. The container liner shipping network is a complex and interconnected system with significant structural delays. It is difficult to accurately predict the future movement of freight rates by looking at historical changes in system behaviour, such as freight rates, without paying attention to changes in the internal structure of the system's operations. This time, the tariff jumped because of the Yemeni attack, which was driven by the input source of the event, causing the alliance shipping company to bypass all the European routes, which is the core structural change, until now, the main body of the new structure of the structural change is almost unshakeable and the potential energy is still there, we use the ship vision treasure Far East - Northwest Europe / Mediterranean route of all ships AIS global distribution map to see that the three major alliance shipping company's main body of the route to Far East Europe and the Mediterranean is still in the rounding towards the Cape of Good Hope. Remind me again, what I am saying here is that the alliance shipping companies and operate the Far East-Northwest Europe/Mediterranean route, the non-alliance and other routes of the alliance do not affect the core structure, and the rounding of the Far East-Northwest Europe/Mediterranean route is the core structure driver.
6/So the question is, will Maersk reassess the situation, we need to go by official releases and facts. If the attacks escalate, that will continue to spill over to other routes, which have actually started to have an impact also to varying degrees upwards.
7/ Originally Hapag-Lloyd, the flag bearer of another alliance, THE, was to announce this year whether or not to re-attempt to resume passage to Suez. "We will decide tomorrow how to proceed," a Hapag-Lloyd spokesman said Tuesday, declining to comment further. Hapag-Lloyd would have been less likely to announce an attempt to resume passage through the Suez Canal due to the attack on the container ship MSC United VIII, but ultimately whether or not an attempt is made is subject to an official release or facts.
8/ The view remains unchanged that last week's decision to round the Cape of Good Hope in full for the Union's Euroland vessels was relatively easy and unanimous, whereas the decision to resume the Red Sea in full based on the current security risks that have not dissipated is much more difficult. All to time, personal judgement is the complexity of geopolitics, religion and human nature of the interests of all parties intertwined with the fragmentation of the crisis is very difficult to end soon, the impact on shipping, especially on the impact of shipping is far-reaching!
9/ The Yemeni Houthis also issued another statement warning the United States and its allies that the Red Sea would become a "burning" arena if they continued to militarise it.
