{"id":21373,"date":"2025-12-19T10:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/maersk-completes-first-red-sea-voyage-in-nearly-two-years\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:27","slug":"maersk-completes-first-red-sea-voyage-in-nearly-two-years","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/maersk-completes-first-red-sea-voyage-in-nearly-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Maersk completes first Red Sea voyage in nearly two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Maersk began diverting vessels away from the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea around the Cape of Good Hope in January 2024 after Yemen&#8217;s Houthi militants attacked ships in the area in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Maersk said in a statement on Friday that one of its vessels, Maersk Sebarok, had made the transit on Thursday and Friday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Whilst this is a significant step forward, it does not mean that we are at a point where we are considering a wider East-West network change back to the trans-Suez corridor,&#8221; it said.<\/div>\n<div>It, however, said that it was considering continuing a &#8220;stepwise approach&#8221; towards resuming passage. There are currently no additional planned sailings, it added.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-21373","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Danish shipping company Maersk announced on Friday that one of its vessels successfully navigated the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait for the first time in nearly two years, though it currently has no plans to fully reopen the route","published_date":"2025-12-19 00:00:00","news_description":"Danish shipping company Maersk announced on Friday that one of its vessels successfully navigated the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait for the first time in nearly two years, though it currently has no plans to fully reopen the route","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25068,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21373\/revisions\/25068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}