Maintenance in progress

a drone struck two gas tankers at egypt's damietta port, a route previously treated as safe, while indian-bound tankers carrying saudi crude switched off their ais transponders and exited the red sea after july 22. at the same time cma cgm reopened two container services through the red sea and suez and maersk prepared to follow. cheap drones have now made several separate chokepoints \ hormuz, the red sea, and now an egyptian export terminal \ contestable at once, and commercial traffic is returning into that uncertainty.

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