Saudi Arabia is redirecting maritime trade to its western ports in the Red Sea to avoid the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran is attacking ships that try to cross, APA reports, citing Saudi Arabia’s state news agency.
Ships going to and from the country’s eastern ports, facing the Persian Gulf, need to transit the strait, which has been effectively closed since the war with Iran broke out.
The new Saudi initiative will see that trade conducted via its Red Sea ports and adds logistics routes to receive containers and cargo being redirected from ports across the Gulf.
“The transport and logistics system… is operating efficiently by boosting the operational capacity of ports, airports, and transport networks to ensure stable supply chains,” the country’s Transport and Logistics Minister Saleh Al-Jasser said during a visit to one of the Red Sea ports, according to
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