Shipping tests the Red Sea again

CMA CGM tests Red Sea waters, but full box ship comeback remains distant

CMA CGM has been testing the waters, quite literally, adding further services to its Red Sea rotation, but there appears no great hope of a wider reversion of containership transits through the waterway before 2027. The French carrier appears to have listed two vessels on its FAL1 rotation, CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin and CMA CGM Zheng He, to pass through Suez on their way back to China in an effort to ... The post CMA CGM tests Red Sea waters, bu…

Shipping tests the Red Sea again

Shipping is still very cautious about a wholesale fleet pivot back to the Suez Canal, but ship trackers are keeping a firm eye on a couple of vessels tiptoeing back to a region that has been off limits for many thanks to the Houthis from Yemen campaign against merchant shipping in support of Palestinians in …