BBCNEWS Verified July 5, 2024
thank you very much. we start with the shipping crisis in the red sea. yemen's houthi militant group has claimed responsibility for yet another attack on a container vessel, this one belonging to the french shipping line cma—cgm. it happened late on tuesday — despite the presence of the us navy in the area and it's the latest in a series of attacks which are prompting major shipping lines to take alternative, longer routes. the international chamber of shipping says that one in five commercial vessels are now ships are now avoiding the red sea, which accounts for 12% of global tr...