Lord Cameron has said he is planning to lobby China to take a tougher stance on Houthi attacks in the Red Sea in his first meeting with Beijing as Foreign Secretary.
Lord Cameron has said he is planning to lobby China to take a tougher stance on Houthi attacks in the Red Sea in his first meeting with Beijing as Foreign Secretary.
The wait and see period for shipping is well and truly over – ships of all types are now re-routing away from the Red Sea as airstrikes against the Houthis failed to stem attacks and insurance rates spiked in response. But not everyone is leaving and shipping’s risk appetite increasingly a question of national association as much as it is an individual security assessment