Following the abandonment of the route through the Suez due to attacks on ships transiting the Red Sea led by Houthi militiamen, with the redirection to the route passing through the Cape of Good Hope circumnavigating Africa by most of the ships of THE Alliance, the consortium of carriers container shipping company consisting of Hapag-Lloyd, HMM, Yang Ming and ONE, the latter decided to propose one specific new service connecting India, Pakistan and the Middle East East with the Mediterranean along the African coasts.

Today's announcement by Ocean Network Express Singapore, from which it can be concluded that the carrier Asia's oceanic continent believes that the Red Sea crisis will not be able to be resolved in a short time.

ONE will inaugurate the new Indian Ocean service Mediterranean service (IOM) with arrival on January 28th of the Hyundai container ship Busan in the port of Nhava Sheva. The rotation of the shipping line will initially scale the ports of Nhava Sheva, Mundra, Karachi, Valencia, Barcelona, Genoa, Piraeus, Damietta, Algeciras, Karachi, Mundra, Nhava Sheva. With the February 11 departure of Hyundai Jakarta from Nhava Sheva the new rotation configuration will carry out stopovers in Nhava Sheva, Mundra, Karachi, Algeciras, Valencia, Barcelona, Genoa, Piraeus, Damietta, Algeciras, Karachi, Mundra, Nhava Sheva.