Today the CMA CGM Osiris container ship from the French CMA CGM, which is employed in the Phoenician Express service that connects Korea and China with the Eastern Mediterranean and the Adriatic crossed the Suez Canal, a transit that has was celebrated by the authority that manages the Egyptian channel as the first large container ship to cross Suez from from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait since March 2024 when they were multiplying the attacks of the Houthis on ships in transit in the Red Sea. The Suez Canal Authority has highlighted that the transit of the CMA CGM Osiris, which is 366 meters long, 51 meters wide, It has a deadweight capacity of 156 thousand tons and can carry 15,536 TEU containers, represents the gradual return of ships giant container ships in the Suez Canal.

The passage in the south-to-north channel of the CMA CGM Osiris, which will dock at the port of Trieste on 8 July, follows those of yesterday of two other container carriers of the CMA CGM, the CMA CGM Aquila and the CMA CGM Callisto, which have a deadweight range of 131 thousand tons.