Today the Danish Maersk Line and the German Hapag-Lloyd, which cooperate under their vessel sharing agreement called Gemini Cooperation, have announced the upcoming transfer to the route that crosses the Suez Canal of four services that so far they travel along the one that circumnavigates Africa around the Cape of

Rectification: In the previous draft of the news it was announced the next return of ships on the route around the Cape of Good Hope. There We apologize to readers for the error

Good Hope. These are the services to which the two companies have assigned the acronyms of AE5/NE4 respectively, which touches the ports of Qingdao, Ningbo, Tanjung Pelepas, (Suez Canal), London, Bremerhaven, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Algeciras, (Suez Canal), Tanjung Pelepas, AE12/SE1, Calling Ningbo Ports, Shanghai, Tanjung Pelepas, (Suez Canal), Algeciras, Koper, Rijeka, Algeciras, (Suez Canal), Singapore, of AE11/SE2, which touches the Shanghai ports, Yantian, Tanjung Pelepas, (Suez Canal), Tanger Med, Valencia, Barcelona, La Spezia, Genoa, Vado Ligure, (Suez Canal), Singapore, and ME2/IEX, which calls at the ports of Ennore, Colombo, (Suez Canal), Algeciras, Rotterdam, London, Hamburg, Tanger Med, (Suez Canal), Colombo.

The new routes will be introduced between September 19 and 31 next October.

The decision to change the routes by the two companies comes despite the worsening crisis in the Middle East East, with the advance of the Houthi militias who have conquered nerve centers for the control of the Bab Strait el-Mandeb and therefore by the sea route that passes through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal ( of the 11th September 2026).