israel hamas wore widespread the region. here s our business reporter david waddell. the situation has come to a head because two big shipping companies, maersk, the container company and hapag lloyd another big shipping container company have both announced that they would stop sending shipping through the babar el mandeh strip. i lljust show you where that is. it is at the south side of the red sea. and at the north side of the red sea, we have the suez canal. these are two of the world s biggest choke points. if anything halts shipping through these points then it has a major effect on other shipping. any ships making their way from india or the philippines to europe or the united states, further west has to come through here and here then eventually through the straits of gibraltar before going further west or north from there. the alternative is to go south around the cape of good hope, suez canal and that adds 14 days possibly on to the journey time. now the suez cana
shipping companies may ask and halfback lloyd, another big shipping container company, have both announced they would stop sending shipping through the strait. i ll show you where thatis the strait. i ll show you where that is so it s here, at the south side of the red sea, and at the north side of the rest see, we have the suez canal. that s red sea. these are two of the world s biggest choke if anything, it halts shipping. making its way through to india or europe, or the unit states, it has to come here, they re here, through the straits of gibraltar before going further west or north from there. the alternative is to go south through the cape of good hope, adding 9 11; days potentially on the journey time. the suez canal authority has given a statement, saying, they are quite keen that business continues to flow through their. they have said that on sunday, 77 ships made their way through the suez canal, which i think is fairly normal. they said in recent weeks, since 1
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