Shipping companies pause Red Sea journeys after Houthi attacks
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Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd halt jouneys in Red Sea after Yemen’s Houthi rebels attack more ships in busy waterway.
Two shipping companies have announced they will pause all journeys through the Red Sea after a series of attacks on shipping by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
Danish shipping company Maersk said on Friday it was suspending its vessels’ passage through the key Bab al-Mandeb Strait, and the German container shipping line Hapag-Lloyd said it would pause journeys in the Red Sea until Monday.
The announcements come after attacks from Houthi-controlled Yemen hit two Liberian-flagged ships in the Bab al-Mandab Strait earlier on Friday, a US defence official told the news agency Reuters.
A projectile, believed to be a drone, struck one of the vessels, causing a fire but no injuries, the official said.
The ship was identified as the Liberia-flagged Al-Jasrah, a 370-metre (1,200-foot) container ship built in 2016.
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