By Ben Aris in Berlin A weekly Ningbo-to-Felixstowe service will cut sailing time roughly in half, part of a wider shift toward the Northern Sea Route as Houthi attacks keep threatening Bab al-Mandeb shipping.

According to container shipping research firm Linerlytica, just two container vessels made outbound passages through the strait last week.

More than 60 commercial ships have been attacked in the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman since March 1.

Yemen sits on the Bab el-Mandeb strait – the southern ‌gateway to the Red Sea – and closing that would open up a new front in the energy crisis.

INS Trishul and INS Aditya escorted MT Compass and MT Thalata through the strategic chokepoint amid heightened security concerns in the Red Sea

Egyptian authorities said Tuesday that eight more people had been found after a tourist boat carrying a dive group sank early the previous morning off the country's Red Sea coast. Four more people were found alive — two Belgians and one Egyptian and one ...

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The Red Sea Museum in Historic Jeddah takes visitors on a journey this August that goes beyond viewing its collections to engaging with the Red Sea as a space for discovery and learning. The program offers a range of activities that take visitors from the ...