A.P. Moller-Maersk will pause all container shipments through the Red Sea until further notice, a spokesperson for the company told Reuters on Friday.

Danish shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk will pause all container shipments through the Red Sea until further notice, a spokesperson for the company told Reuters on Friday.

“Following the near-miss incident involving Maersk Gibraltar yesterday and yet another attack on a container vessel today, we have instructed all Maersk vessels in the area bound to pass through the Bab al-Mandab Strait to pause their journey until further notice,” the company said in a statement.

Maersk on Thursday said its vessel Maersk Gibraltar was targeted by a missile while travelling from Salalah, Oman, to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and that the crew and vessel were reported safe.

  • vexikron@lemmy.zipEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    Could this kick off a chain of other ocean transport vessel operators doing the same, and end up recreating the logistical nightmare back during Covid when that other ship got lodged in the Suez Canal?

    Used to work as a data analyst for a global logistics company and this has me a bit worried.

    • cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      Used to work as a data analyst for a global logistics company and this has me a bit worried.

      You should be the one answering the question for us laymen. If you don’t know nobody does

      • vexikron@lemmy.zipEnglish
        91·
        1 year ago

        That was 8 years ago. Have not been in or followed the industry in depth that much.

        That being said, I mean, its possible that other shipping carriers could follow suit, but at that level of stuff you are talking the gossip i heard from sitting on the same floor as the CEO and VPs, and emails being sent only to my former position, executive level report analyst, basically the reports for the VPs and CEO, and meetings with the same.

        If such information were widely available it would fuck up the stock market to hard, and it would make it too hard for the few people who in reality are the only ones who know such things im advance to do insider trading and make huge world economy shaping plans with all their friends on all the other corporate boards they sit on.

        I mean uh what no that never happens… yes uh for legal reasons disregard that last sentence.

        SO ANYWAY, I currently do not have the info required to make more than a guess that it is a plausible scenario, the actual decision to uh kind of cripple global capitalism involves powerful people who do not cc on their email chains anymore.

        Lets just put it this way:

        After a bit more than a decade doing data analysis and programming and database management for a very prominent tech firm, previously mentioned global logistics firm and a non profit aimed at helping the homeless, I am now an anarcho communist who believes the MIT model that civilization will basically collapse by 2040, so I am currently attempting to fulfil one of my own personal dreams and make my own video game, before that happens.