Eukor, one of the world's leading shipping carriers of the motor vehicle transport segment, today announced the This decision has already been taken by leading carriers in various sectors shipping, to cancel the transits of its garage ships in the southern area of the Red Sea, a region in which in recent years In the past few weeks, there have been attacks on ships attributed to the almost all of them to the Houthi militiamen and implemented with the use of boats with armed men on board and with the launch of drones and missiles from the area of Yemen they control.

Eukor, which is controlled by the shipowning group and logistics company Wallenius Wilhelmsen and owned by the Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors, specified that the ships will be diverted to the Cape of Good Hope and that the The new route will involve between ten to 14 days of sailing What's more. In addition, the company has specified that it will continue to monitor the situation closely and will remain in direct contact with the authorities, category and all stakeholders.

Meanwhile, this morning, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations of the Royal Navy has announced that an incident occurred in the Gulf of Oman, where a ship - the UKMTO said without providing Details of the attack - she was approached by 4-5 men Armed with black uniforms and masks. According to the security agency British Ambrey, the unit attacked would be the oil tanker St Nikolas, flying the flag of the Marshall Islands, and the kidnapping of the vessel, which is carrying Iraqi crude oil destined for Turkey, would be attributable to Iran in retaliation for the kidnapping of the same ship, then under the name Suez Rajan, carried out the last September from the U.S. because it was carrying oil Iraqi from the Far East to the Port of Houston in violation sanctions against the government in Tehran. The Greek Empire Navigation, which operated the ship, had agreed to pay a fine of USD 2.5 million and to be audited for the duration of four years.