{"id":27489,"date":"2026-03-02T16:43:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=27489"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:43:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T14:43:46","slug":"shipping-companies-divert-vessels-around-cape-of-good-hope-after-strikes-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/shipping-companies-divert-vessels-around-cape-of-good-hope-after-strikes-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipping companies divert vessels around Cape of Good Hope after strikes on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">&#8220;Due to the deteriorating security situation in the Middle East region following the escalating military conflict, we have decided&#8230;to pause future Trans-Suez sailings through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait for the time being,&#8221; Danish container shipping group Maersk said in a statement on Sunday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The company last month announced a gradual return of some services to the Suez route, seen as a key step towards ending two years of global trade disruption caused by attacks on ships in the Red Sea by Yemen&#8217;s Houthi rebels. &#8220;We will continue to monitor the situation closely and take all needed actions,&#8221; the company said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Once the situation stabilises and the security conditions again permit, we will continue to prioritise the Trans-Suez route,&#8221; Maersk added, commenting on its Middle East-India to Mediterranean and Middle East-India to East Coast US services. The company later on Sunday said its services in the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar may also be disrupted.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>German shipping group Hapag-Lloyd said in a separate statement it was rerouting its IMX container shipping service that connects India and the Middle East with the Mediterranean around southern Africa.<\/div>\n<div>It added it would prioritise the route again once the security situation permitted transit.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22471,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-27489","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Shipping companies Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd and CMA CGM are rerouting vessels around Africa, away from the Suez Canal and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, after United States (US) and Israeli strikes on Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.","published_date":"","news_description":"Shipping companies Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd and CMA CGM are rerouting vessels around Africa, away from the Suez Canal and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, after United States (US) and Israeli strikes on Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27489","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\/27489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27490,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27489\/revisions\/27490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=27489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}