With the stakes raised amidst heightened risks of retaliatory Houthi attacks on
ships in the Red Sea, carriers continue to take radically different approaches
to their Suez services. CMA CGM and a handful of niche carriers continue to make
Suez transits while all of the other main carriers have shifted to the Cape
route.
The Asia-Europe trade faces a severe capacity shortage in the coming weeks, with
some 70 additional ships required to maintain weekly sailings on the 30 regular
services on th