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Re:African Ports Overwhelmed by Red Sea Reroutings by hytfyiv3j on Friday December 22, 2023 @09:14AM (#38734288)
It's fascinating to try to imagine the atmosphere in the room as they dust of decades old contingency plans of "what to do if Suez is closed?" and divert a sixth of the worlds shipping around the whole continent of Africa, probably adding a lot of cost in fuel and serious operational concerns as the ports naturally aren't ready for such a huge increase in traffic.
Re:African Ports Overwhelmed by Red Sea Reroutings by ceejayoz on Friday December 22, 2023 @09:26AM (#38734403)
Those plans aren't very dusty, and were likely all updated quite recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Suez_Canal_obstruction
Re:African Ports Overwhelmed by Red Sea Reroutings by hytfyiv3j on Friday December 22, 2023 @09:32AM (#38734448)
It must have been obvious from the start that it couldn't last too long, making just waiting it out the logical strategy.