Danish shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk will pause its container shipments through the Red Sea until further notice after various vessels came under attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
“Following the near-miss incident involving Maersk Gibraltar yesterday and yet another attack on a container vessel today, we have instructed all Maersk vessels in the area bound to pass through the Bab al-Mandab Strait to pause their journey until further notice,” the company said in a statement to Reuters.
The missile attacks on the MSC Palatium III and the Al Jasrah vessels are escalating the maritime campaign by the Iranian-backed Houthis. The group says their attacks aim to end the Israeli airstrikes and ground offensive targeting the Gaza Strip amid the war with Hamas, The Associated Press reported.
A Houthi spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree claimed responsibility for the attack and said the Yemeni armed forces will continue preventing ships from heading to Israeli ports in the Red Sea “until they bring in the food and medicine that our steadfast brothers in the Gaza Strip need.”
German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd was operating the Al Jasrah at the time and said it would pause all traffic in the corridor until Monday.
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