ACT OF WAR: Iran Attacking Essential Suez Canal Shipping Route, Red Sea Now Closed To Traffic

Biden funded these mullah destroyers. Iran backed Houthis attacked two commercial ships in the Red Sea with naval drones…

Red Sea is now largely closed to traffic. That's 8.8 million bpd of daily oil transit, and nearly 380 million tons of daily cargo transit.

Global traffic now will be rerouted around Cape of Good Hope, adding 40% to voyage distance (and even more to cost) pic.twitter.com/Xct7x03tFI

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 18, 2023

. @SkyNews : "If you want to get global trade moving again, there is no other choice" – the US must attack Iran#Houthis #shipping #Suez pic.twitter.com/3WHoHi6gMv

— Potkin Azarmehr (@potkazar) December 21, 2023

As the crisis in the Red Sea deepens, exporters are wondering how to get their goods to market. The attacks, led by Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen, have disrupted a key trade route linking Europe and North America with Asia via the Suez Canal https://t.co/8wFTwUX7qm pic.twitter.com/Oaq1gdz5H3

— Reuters (@Reuters) December 21, 2023

Yemen's Houthi movement attacked two commercial ships in the Red Sea with naval drones, the Iran-backed group said, the latest in a surge of attacks over Israel's military campaign in Gaza. Leading global freight firms are rerouting to avoid the Suez Canal https://t.co/VIcT9RZq7j pic.twitter.com/ySywRSkzbw

— Reuters (@Reuters) December 18, 2023

Shipping Is Halted In The Red Sea And At The Suez Canal

By: Walter Loeb, Forbes, Dec 20, 2023:

Loaded containers stacked on top of a cargo ship sailing in a canal, Suez Canal, Red sea, Egypt

ADVERTISEMENT

Many major ocean carriers have halted their ships from entering the Red Sea following the lead of Marsk and Hapag Lloyd in suspending operation after the projectile attacks from the Yemen-based Houthi militia.

As carriers reroute their goods, the Hong Kong based OOCL and Taiwan-based Evergreen have also temporarily stopped accepting cargo to and from Israel until further notice.

The suspension came as two more commercial vessels were under fire on Monday with the MSC Clara and Norwegian oil tanker Swan Atlantic both attacked with naval drones originally from Yemen territory. The Houthis claimed responsibility for both incidents. No crew members were injured on the Swan Atlantic.

Last Friday, two containerships, Hapag Lloyd’s Al Jasrah and the MSC Palatium III, were both hit with Houthis drone missile strikes. No crew members were injured, the companies confirmed. The Houthis confirmed that they also targeted MSC Alanya, but the vessel was not hit.

PROMOTED

The attacks on the MSC and Hapag Lloyd ships occurred a day after another projectile missed the Maersk Gibraltar vessel.

The moratorium on shipments through the Red Sea, a key passage that enables ships coming from Asia to travel through Egypt’s Suez Canal could cause delays in global trade to close out 2023.

ADVERTISEMENT

Admiral Ossama Rabiee, the chairman and managing director of the Suez Canal Authority, said in a statement on Sunday that the navigation through the Suez Canal was flowing “normally as usual,” but said 55 vessels had shifted their routes South to go around the Cape of Good Hope since November 19th. On that date, the Houthi rebels hijacked a commercial ship in the Red Sea, the Bahamas-Galaxy Leader. The ship was brought to the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah. Rabiee called the 55 vessels a significantly low number, in comparison to the 2,128 vessels that transited the Suez Canal in that period.
MORE FOR YOU
BlackRock Will Completely Destroy Bitcoin Shock Price Warning As Leak Reveals Huge Spot ETF Date Update
Is U S Shale Too Big To Fail
Nigerian Central Bank Issues Circular Reversing 2021 Bitcoin Ban

Rabiee stressed that the Sues Canal is the fastest and shortest route for vessels travelling between Asia and Europe. He said that travel time could be cut from nine days to two weeks depending on the port of origin and the port of destination. Travelling via the Cape of Good Hope adds 10 to 15 percent shipping costs.

Forbes Daily: Get our best stories, exclusive reporting and essential analysis of the day’s news in your inbox every weekday.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will announce Operation Prosperity Guardian, the formation of a new maritime protection force ensuring that the Red Sea is safe for commerce shipping. Austin is expected to make the announcement during his trip to the Middle East this week. The U.S. Response comes as international naval forces continue their combat operations to deter any further escalation out of Yemen.

POSTSCRIPT: A U.S. warship, the USS Carney, shot down 14 suspected attack drones over the Red Sea. The drones were targeting commercial ships, according to American and British military. The fight for free shipping is just short of open warfare. It must stop.

• Share
• Tweet
• Truth
• Gettr
• Telegram
• LinkedIn
•  
•  
•   

The Truth Must be Told

Your contribution supports independent journalism

Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts. But we won't put up a paywall. Because never has the free world needed independent journalism more.

Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media won't. We cannot do our ground-breaking report without your support. We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left's war on freedom. Our readers’ contributions make that possible.

Geller Report's independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our work is critical in the fight for freedom and because it is your fight, too.

Please contribute here.

or

Make a monthly commitment to support The Geller Report – choose the option that suits you best.

• $25.00 here
• $50.00 here
• $75.00 here
• $100.00 here
• $250.00 here

ADVERTISEMENT

Quick note: We cannot do this without your support. Fact. Our work is made possible by you and only you. We receive no grants, government handouts, or major funding. Tech giants are shutting us down. You know this. Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Adsense, Pinterest permanently banned us. Facebook, Google search et al have shadow-banned, suspended and deleted us from your news feeds. They are disappearing us. But we are here.

Subscribe to Geller Report newsletter here— it’s free and it’s essential NOW when informed decision making and opinion is essential to America's survival. Share our posts on your social channels and with your email contacts. Fight the great fight.

Follow Pamela Geller on Gettr. I am there. click here.

Follow Pamela Geller on Trump's social media platform, Truth Social. It's open and free.

Remember, YOU make the work possible. If you can, please contribute to Geller Report.

Join The Conversation. Leave a Comment.

We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spammy or unhelpful, click the ... symbol to the right of the comment to let us know. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.