Shipping

  • An international affairs editor has offered his immediate thoughts on the deaths of two sailors in a Houthi missile attack on a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden.  “This is a significant and grave development,” he says.  “The Houthis have been attacking shipping for some months now, but this is the first time that…

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  • CMA CGM suspends transit through the Red Sea

    Shipping group CMA CGM has become the latest to suspend transit of its vessels through the Red Sea due to security concerns, according to a source quoted by news agency Reuters. Crossings by its vessels of the Bab al-Mandeb Strait in and out of the Red Sea will be halted until further notice, the source familiar…

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  • Setbacks to Dangote refinery exposing flaws in Nigeria’s shipping industry

    Checks by the Nigerian Tribune has revealed that no single Nigerian shipping company participated in the six crude oil delivery process that took place at the $19.5bn Dangote Petro-chemicals Refinery located in Lagos. This is even as further findings revealed that Nigeria lost out due to the very large sizes of ships used in the delivery…

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