A Mediterranean Shipping Co. (MSC) container ship on Tuesday became the latest commercial vessel attacked in the Red Sea, just days after its 2M Alliance partner Maersk said it would consider resuming transits through the Red Sea and Suez Canal due to the creation of an international naval task force meant to protect shipping in the region.<\/p>\n
MSC said in a statement that the MSC United VIII was attacked in the early afternoon local time while it was en route from Saudi Arabia\u2019s King Abdullah Port to Karachi, Pakistan. The ship is not on a regular service but listed as an \u201cextra vessel\u201d on MSC\u2019s online schedule.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe vessel informed a nearby coalition task force warship of the attack and as instructed engaged in evasive maneuvers,\u201d MSC said in the statement. \u201cCurrently, all crew are safe with no reported injuries and a thorough assessment of the vessel is being conducted.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur first priority remains protecting the lives and safety of our seafarers, and until their safety can be ensured MSC will continue to reroute vessels booked for Suez transit via the Cape of Good Hope,\u201d the carrier added. It did not disclose the exact nature of the attack.<\/p>\n
The diversions are being driven by accelerating attacks against commercial shipping in the form of missiles and drones launched by Houthi rebels from southern Yemen, an extension of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The US last week announced the creation of a multinational naval force to thwart the attacks and restore security to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.<\/p>\n
Tuesday\u2019s attack was the third against a container ship. On Dec. 14, the Maersk Gibraltar had a \u201cnear-miss\u201d incident, according to Maersk, while Hapag-Lloyd\u2019s Al Jasrah was attacked the following day. Neither incident resulted in any casualties, and the ships were able to resume their transit.<\/p>\n
Separately, the US Central Command reported that a US Navy destroyer and fighter jets on Tuesday shot down 12 attack drones, three anti-ship ballistic missiles and two cruise missiles the Houthis launched from Yemen.<\/p>\n
Maersk said Friday while the presence of the naval force is \u201cmost welcome news\u201d for commercial shipping, \u201cthe overall risk in the area is not eliminated at this stage.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Angell, M. (2023, December 26). MSC ship becomes latest targeted in Red Sea Attack<\/i>. Journal of Commerce. https:\/\/www.joc.com\/article\/msc-ship-becomes-latest-targeted-red-sea-attack_20231226.html<\/p>\n A Mediterranean Shipping Co. (MSC) container ship on Tuesday became the latest commercial vessel attacked in the Red Sea, just days after its 2M Alliance partner Maersk said it would consider resuming transits through the Red Sea and Suez Canal due to the creation of an international naval task force meant to protect shipping in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[88,84],"class_list":["post-2846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-container-liners","tag-maritime"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2847,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ems.cohesionfreight.com.hk:8080\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}