Attacks on ships transiting the Red Sea occurred in recent weeks, which have led to many shipping companies to move their ships on the route that circumnavigates Africa, are having repercussions all the time on maritime traffic passing through the Suez Canal, where only 41 ships, i.e. approximately half of the traffic average of one year ago. The Suez Canal Authority, worried about the evolving situation, is trying to convince shipowners to bring their ships back on the route that Cross the Egyptian Canal. A work of persuasion that is It began yesterday with a videoconference discussion between the President and the of the Suez Canal Authority, Osama Rabie, and the company's top management Danish shipping company Maersk Line, one of the world's leading shipping carriers global containerized companies to decide to divert their container ship to the Cape of Good Hope.

In conversation with Vincent Klerk, Member of the Board of Directors of the A.P. Møller-Mærsk Group, with Rabab Boulos, Deputy Executive Chairman of the Danish Group, and with Camilla Jain Holtse, Head of Group Relations in the Middle East and North Africa, the Chairman of the Canal Authority tried to persuade Maersk to revise its position considering the possibility of scheduling a return of the ships on the route through Suez. Return that i Representatives of the Danish group have confirmed that it will not take place as soon as the safety of the transit of ships in the Red Sea will be Restored.

A level of security that at the moment, however, does not seem to Maersk and other airlines are planning for the next few years. transits of their ships through the Egyptian canal. If in the In the last few days, there has been no damage to ships caused by drones and missiles launched from the area of Yemen controlled by the Houthi militiamen or attacks on ships conducted by boats with armed men on board, having been in the last few years 3-4 days ships approached only by boats with people on board apparently unarmed, however last night it was carried out a large number of drones and missiles against the dozens of ships present in the southern Red Sea area.

The U.S. Central Command has announced that the Houthis have carried out drone and anti-ship missile launches, as well as guided and ballistics. The U.S. command specified that 18 drones, two anti-ship cruise missiles and a ballistic missile anti-ship guns were shot down by aircraft carrier fighter-bombers Dwight D. Eisenhower and the destroyers USS Gravely, USS Laboon and USS Mason and from the British destroyer HMS Diamond. The American Centcom and the Royal Navy's UKMTO have specified that these launches They did not cause any damage or injuries.