Suez Canal Authority urges liners to resume Red Sea transits given the improved security situation

The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has called on container liners to return to crossing the Canal after the improved security situation in the region. To showcase the waterway’s safe transit, Ossama Rabiee, Chairman and Managing Director of the SCA, recently visited the 16,020 TEU container vessel CMA CGM Jules Verne during its journey from Singapore to Lebanon. This marked the first northbound passage through the Suez Canal after the vessel transited the Bab El-Mandab. Rabiee also observed the maiden voyage of the CMA CGM Helium, a 13,000-TEU ship that was en route northbound from Singapore to Alexandria. 

The Canal has implemented several measures to ensure safe transit, including assigning chief pilots, providing tugboat assistance, and maintaining real-time monitoring from the Main Traffic Control Centre and stations along the canal. The Chairman emphasised that the renewed stability in the Red Sea requires shipping lines to reconsider their navigation schedules, as per a report.

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