Houthis widen maritime attacks

Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthis are threatening merchant ships in the Indian Ocean after striking the MSC Orion container ship in an attack well beyond the Red Sea

Suez Canal

Bab al-Mandab Strait: 18,250 container ships every year, carrying US$1 trillion worth of goods, passed through Red Sea to Suez Canal before Houthi attacks

Red Sea

AFRICA

Normal Asia-Europe route

Yemen

Cape of Good Hope: Houthi drone and missile strikes have forced shippers to reroute cargo to longer and more expensive journey around Southern Africa, stoking fears that Israel-Hamas war could spread and destabilise Middle East 

Indian Ocean 

MSC Orion: Attacked 300 nautical miles (555km) south-east of Horn of Africa

Cape route adds up to 14 days to Asia-Europe voyage 

Atlantic Ocean

2,000  1,240 miles

Sources: Container News, Maritime Executive, Reuters  Picture: FleetMon    ©GRAPHIC NEWS