Orient Overseas Container Lines, known as (OOCL) announced that it will stop accepting goods to and from Israel with immediate effect and until further notice, due to problems facing ships heading to Israeli ports.
The company confirmed, through a brief statement on its website, that it had not set a deadline for the return of reservations for entry into Israeli ports.
Nearly 5 international shipping lines have so far announced that they will stop operating in the Red Sea region and will not pass through the Suez Canal.
The list of companies announced to stop operating in the Red Sea region and from the Cape of Good Hope includes the Danish Maersk Line, the Swiss MSC Line, the French CMA Line, the German Hapag-Lloyd Line, and the Israeli ZIM Line, which has stopped its services in the Red Sea since last November.
Osama Rabie, Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, said this Sunday morning that navigation traffic in the canal is regular, and that the Suez Canal is closely following the ongoing tensions in the Red Sea, and is studying the extent of their impact on navigation traffic in the canal, in light of some shipping lines announcing that their flights will be diverted Temporary to the Cape of Good Hope route.
In this regard, he pointed out that 55 ships were diverted to transit via the Cape of Good Hope route during the period from November 19 until today, which is a small percentage compared to the crossing of 2,128 ships during that period.
OOCL is a line for transporting containers and its nationality is from Hong Kong Shipping Container and Logistics Service Company, which is one of the integrated international transport companies for containers, logistics services and terminals and has offices in 70 countries, and has 59 ships of different classes, with Capacity ranges from 2,992 to 21,413, including two ice-class ships for extreme weather conditions.
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