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The US Navy has shot down two missiles headed toward a container ship in the southern Red Sea and launched from the rebel Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, according to the US Central Command. Later another ship also reported an apparent attack.

The Houthis continue to attack international shipping.

US Navy helicopters returned fire sinking three of the four small boats attempting to board a cargo ship, killing the crews, said US Central Command.

Shipping giant Maersk is suspending shipping through the Red Sea again, after one of its freighters was attacked twice in 24 hours by Yemen's Houthi rebels. All transits are to be suspended for 48 hours in order to investigate the incident and assess the security situation, the company told dpa on Sunday. Maersk confirmed that the Maersk Hangzhou container ship was hit by an object on Saturday evening after it had passed the Bab al-Mandab strait en route from Singapore to Port Suez, Egypt. ...

The Houthis have repeatedly targeted vessels in the vital Red Sea shipping lane with strikes they say are in support of Palestinians in Gaza. | World News

The United States sunk three small Houthi boats in the Red Sea early Sunday morning following another attack on a merchant ship as tensions continue to rise in the region. U.S. Navy helicopters from the USS Eisenhower and the Gravely responded to a distress call issued by the container ship Maersk Hangzhao — the…

He tally compiled by Flexport Inc. shows 299 vessels with a combined capacity to carry 4.3 million containers have either changed course or plan to. That’s about double the number from a week ago and equates to about 18% of global capacity.

The chaos impacting shipping through the Red Sea is threatening to continue for months, according to the world’s second-largest container line A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S.

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A fire broke out on a Russian nuclear-powered container ship and icebreaker docked at the Atomflot berth in the northern port of Murmansk, the country's Emergencies Ministry reported on Telegram on Dec. 24.