Tag: Red Sea

During the SAFETY4SEA Hamburg Forum 2024, Nikos Georgopoulos, Chief Business Development Officer, Diaplous, gave a presentation on emerging ship security challenges. The presenter explored the current reality in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea concerning maritime terrorism and attacks on commercial shipping and explained that understanding the reasons behind these attacks is crucial for devising effective countermeasures.

According to news, Egyptian authorities are holding a gas carrier with a Liberian registration after it ran aground in a sensitive environmental area in the Gulf of Aqaba. Salvage teams successfully freed the vessel and relocated it to a safe anchorage close to Safaga, Egypt, in the Red Sea.

Rebecca Galanopoulos Jones, Senior Content Analyst, Veson Nautical, explores how Red Sea disruption is pushing up container values and rates. 

Howden, a UK-based insurance broker, has introduced war risk cargo insurance to cover vessels sailing through the Red Sea against drone and missile attacks due to escalating geopolitical tensions.

In a recent market analysis, Sea-Intelligence highlights that after a tumultuous few weeks in the wake of the Red Sea crisis, some form of stability has ensued, with the round-Africa routings now normalising. This was also reflected in the February 2024 global schedule reliability score, which improved by 1.7 percentage points M/M to 53.3%. 

On April 10, the Houthis claimed to have targeted four vessels in the Gulf of Aden with drones and naval missiles, including a U.S. warship.

On 9th April, at approximately 3:00 a.m. (Sanaa time) USS Mason (DDG 87) and United States Central Command (CENTCOM) forces successfully engaged and destroyed one inbound anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) launched by Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists from Yemen over the Gulf of Aden.

The Asian Shipowners’ Association Safe Navigation and Environment Committee (ASA-SNEC) has urged the shipping industry to continue to highlight the maritime security situation in the Red Sea, and to support ambitious net zero targets through the adoption of the Zero Emission Shipping Fund. 

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency informs that it received a report on 1st April, of an incident 150 nautical miles north west of of AI Hodeidah.

As the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) explains in their Leadership Insights newsletter story, shipping charities and unions have aired concerns that seafarer safety and well-being is being overlooked as they get caught in the crosshairs of geopolitical conflict in the Gulf of Aden, Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait.