Damn, these guys are taking it to Israel/USA. The great satan is falling due to a life of sin. Good men don't want to enlist to fight for this disgusting country. And the enemy knows this well.
I'm gonna sperg out a little, cause the details are wrong.
Not a single ship attacked by Houthis was en route to, or from, Israel, that's because most shipping companies operating through the Red Sea flat out refuse to do any business with Israel, those who still do already rerouted their ships to go around Africa (increasing costs and causing delays). The port of Eilat is losing money, not because they have to pay premiums, but because it has to run idle with no carriers willing to come.
However this does not mean that Houthis are simply lashing out, some of those ships and/or shipping companies can be linked in one way or the other with Israel - for example, the Norwegian tanker "Strinda", which was hit by a missile a few days ago was en route to Italy, but later, after finishing that job, it was scheduled to pick up cargo in Ashdod in January. I'll say that roughly half of all attacked ships had some ties with Israel.
As for the details on the ships attacked over the past 24-36 hours, we've got:
- A Bulgarian bulk carrier "Ruen" sailing from Singapore to Turkey was hijacked in the Arabian Sea.
- A German container carrier "Al Jasrah" sailing from the Mediterranean (last port in Greece) to Singapore was hit by either a missile or a drone in the Red Sea.
- A Swiis-Italian container carrier "Alanya" sailing from Oman to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia reported missile fire in the Red Sea, but was not hit.
- And the most interesting case: a Danish container carrier "Maersk Gibraltar" sailing from Oman to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia came under fire in the Red Sea. The Maersk shipping company and
CENTCOM reported that it was missed by a missile, however Houthis
reported a successful drone strike against it.
All details on the ships from
tradewinds news.
It's much more than just the insurance, just now shipping giants Moller-Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd, announced that they will no longer sail through the Bab al-Mandab Strait, instead they will go around Africa, which means increased delay times (10 days extra one way) and increased costs of shipping (or lower tonnage on the same fuel). This will affect all of us pretty soon, and to make things even worse: Panama is imposing limits on vessels passing through the Canal due to severe drought.
It's obvious that Iran gave the Houthis a green light to mess with our economies. The scale and sophistication of Houthi attacks is increasing with every day, they're running circles around us, while the US is unable to find its ass with both hands - only 2 days ago we were able to convince Brits to
send the HMS "Diamond" destroyer to the Red Sea. And I think that Iran's plans go beyond inflating costs of living in the west, I'm starting to think they want to draw us into another never ending war in the Middle East.
abcnews.go.com
www.navalnews.com
www.tradewindsnews.com
