Like the ships of the German Hapag-Lloyd, most of the of other container ships operated on routes between Asia and Europe/Mediterranean by the THE Alliance consortium, which is made up of the Hamburg-based company, the South Korean HMM, the Taiwanese Yang Ming and Singapore's ONE, have been moved on the route that circumnavigates Africa and passes through Capo di Buona Hope in order to avoid transit in the Red Sea, which is made very difficult to dangerous by repeated attacks on Houthi militia ships.