The company will decide that day whether or not to continue rerouting its ships, the spokesman added, referring to the results of a meeting of its crisis committee.
German container shipping company Hapag-Lloyd will continue to divert its vessels from Suez Canal and around the Cape of Good Hope for safety reasons, a company representative said today.
“We are monitoring the situation carefully day by day but will continue to reroute our ships until January 9“, a representative of the world’s fifth largest container shipping company said in response to a question.
The company will decide that day whether or not to continue rerouting its ships, the spokesman added, referring to the results of a meeting of its crisis committee.
Like its rivals, Hapag-Lloyd has been trying to avoid the Red Sea region after Yemen’s Houthi fighters began targeting merchant ships, disrupting global trade.
One of Hapag-Lloyd’s ships was attacked near Yemen on 15 December.
East-West transfers take longer and cost more as they have to circumnavigate Africa via the alternative route and providers charge additional fees.
Hapag-Lloyd’s peer in the sector, Maersk, will decide later today whether to resume sailing through the Suez Canal or divert them, following the weekend attack on one of its ships in the area, after which it stopped the passage of all its ships in the Red Sea for 48 hours.
Source :Skai
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