Let’s get stuck in the Suez Canal… HMM decides to bypass’Hope Peak’ after 46 years

Input 2021.03.28 15:56

As the Suez Canal accident in Egypt showed signs of prolonged periods, HMM, Korea’s largest ocean container shipping company, decided to divert four ships to the Cape of Good Hope route in South Africa.

According to shipping magazine Shiping Watch on the 28th, HMM is a 24,000 TEU class’HMM Stockholm’,’HMM Rotterdam’,’HMM Dublin’ and 5000TEU class tramboat’HMM Prestige’ scheduled to pass through the Suez Canal in South Africa. I decided to bypass the Cape of Good Hope.

If you go around the Cape of Good Hope, it takes an average of 7-10 days more because you have to sail about 9000 km more. This is the first time since the Suez Canal was blocked for two years due to the’Yom Kippur War’ in 1973 because the Suez Canal was blocked.

It is known that this detour was decided after consultation with the’The Alliance’, a marine sports alliance that HMM has joined. In the same year, the German shipping company Hapak Lloyd, a member of the Federation of Movements, posted a notice on the website that ships belonging to HMM had decided to detour.

However, the 24,000 TEU class’HMM Gdansk’, which was first blocked from entering the Suez Canal, has been waiting on the nearby sea for four days.

The Suez Canal is blocked after the ever given, operated by Taiwanese shipbuilder Evergreen, went aground on the morning of the 23rd. The Evergiven is a 59m wide, 400m long, 220,000 ton container ship departing from China and heading for Rotterdam, the Netherlands. More than 100 ships, including those waiting in the Mediterranean and Red Sea, have been hindered from operating.