\n January 13, 2026 9:46 AM, EST<\/p>\n
A.P. Moller-Maersk A\/S has safely sailed another ship through the southern part of the Red Sea, its second successful attempt after most shipping lines have avoided the area for two years.<\/p>\n
The voyage marks another step toward normalization of global supply lines, after Yemen-based Houthis in 2023 began attacking vessels, forcing shipowners to sail south of Africa.\n \t \t\t<\/p>\n
Maersk said it will now continue to \u201cgradually\u201d resume transits as the security situation seems to approve.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Maersk Denver, a U.S.-flagged container vessel, on Jan. 11-12 successfully transited the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and into the Red Sea, Copenhagen-based Maersk said in a\u00a0statement\u00a0late Jan. 12<\/a>. Maersk had made \u201cnecessary safety measures\u201d during the transit, it said, without providing details.\n \t\t<\/p>\n Maersk<\/a>\u00a0ranks No. 6 on the\u00a0Transport Topics list of the Top 50 Global Freight carriers<\/a>.<\/p>\n While a gradual opening of one of the world\u2019s busiest transport bottlenecks bodes well for the supply lines, it will presumably pressure profit margins in the shipping industry. Maersk and other container lines have benefited from the extra transport time needed to sail south of Africa, which effectively has reduced global vessel capacity by 7-8% at a time when there\u2019s fierce competition among shipowners for cargo.<\/p>\n Maersk had made\u00a0the first safe transit\u00a0in December. In the Jan. 12 statement the company said that it had \u201cno additional sailings to announce at this time\u201d for the area. Still, \u201cassuming that security thresholds continue to be met, we will continue our stepwise approach,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 13, 2026 9:46 AM, EST A.P. Moller-Maersk A\/S has safely sailed another ship through the southern part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[224],"tags":[245,7056],"class_list":["post-14794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-maersk","tag-maersk","tag-ocean-shipping"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}