A spokesman for the German shipping company "Hapag-Lloyd" confirmed that the company "is not thinking at all" about resuming use of the Suez Canal.

For his part, Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said that regional and international geopolitical conditions had a major impact on his country’s hard currency resources, represented by a decline in Suez Canal revenues due to threats to shipping traffic in the Red Sea.

 Major shipping companies, such as Hapag-Lloyd and Maersk, have stopped using routes through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal since last November, due to the Houthis targeting ships and diverting their ships to the Cape of Good Hope route.

Yesterday, the Houthis announced the implementation of 3 military operations targeting two ships in the Arabian Sea and a third in the Red Sea.

The Houthi military spokesman, Yahya Saree, said that the ships were targeted with winged and ballistic missiles and drones.

He reiterated his group's continued targeting of Israeli ships or those heading to the occupied Palestinian territories, until the war on Gaza and Lebanon is stopped, as he put it.

The British Maritime Trade Authority announced that it had received a report of two explosions occurring close to a commercial ship, twenty-five nautical miles south of Mocha.

It confirmed in a statement the safety of the ship and its capacity, indicating that the authorities are investigating the incident, renewing its warning to ships to cross with caution and to report any suspicious activities in the area.