Hapag-Lloyd: will reroute 25 ships before year-end to avoid Red Sea

Germany's Hapag-Lloyd said on Thursday that it will reroute 25 ships by the end of the year to avoid the Suez Canal and the Red Sea, where Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis are targeting merchant ships. "We will reroute around 25 vessels up to the end of 2023," a spokesperson said in a written reply to an enquiry by Reuters. One of Hapag-Lloyd's ships, the Al Jasrah, which was attacked near Yemen on Dec. 15, is on its way to Singapore, the spokesperson also said.