Copenhagen - With the recent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Sea-Intelligence Sunday Spotlight, modelled the potential impact on container shipping should shipping lines resume the Suez Canal transit. It must be stressed that the analysis does not predict when that re-opening might occur, considering that the Houthis have not yet declared a ceasefire, and that the lines did not switch back to the Suez routing during the last ceasefire. Instead, what we have done is calculate the quantitative effects, if shipping lines revert to a Suez routing.

The two primary impacts would be a . . .