If the more extensive intervention of military naval forces in the Red Sea region is increasing the level of safety of commercial maritime traffic passing through it, However, the number of attacks against the Ships in the area made mainly with drones and missiles launched from the Yemeni coast. The last one was conducted yesterday against the container ship MSC United VIII of the MSC group from the Saudi King Abdullah Port and bound for the Pakistani port of Karachi which has been targeted with anti-ship missiles, assault that was claimed by the forces Yemeni armies of Houthi militiamen. MSC has announced that there is no are injured among crew members and are in progress Damage assessments.

If the MSC United VIII was hit, yesterday a Heavy rocket fire was intercepted by the Naval presence in the region: the U.S. Central Command reported that in the southern Red Sea area, within a period of ten hours, the destroyer USS Laboon and F/A-18 aircraft Super Hornets from the aircraft carrier Dwight Eisenhower shot down twelve drones, three anti-ship ballistic missiles and two missiles Launched off the ground.

Following this latest attack, the MSC Group confirmed that all of its ships that were planned to transit through the Suez Canal have changed course and will circumnavigate Africa passing through the Cape of Good Hope. A change of course that is has also been decided by other leading shipping companies world, which nevertheless reassured customers about the the intention to return to the route through Suez as soon as the security conditions will allow it, as the Dane explained Maersk assuring that, with the deployment of the military intervention operation "Prosperity Guardian" in in the region, the company is preparing to restore the eastbound and westbound transits through the Red Sea. Specifying that some of its container ships are still going through the Red Sea on the basis of a safety assessment, French CMA CGM has also announced that it is drawing up plans for a gradual increase in the number of its own vessels, which will return to transit through the Suez Canal.