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Torm tankers steer clear of critical area in the Red Sea

The Danish shipping company has decided that its ships will so far not sail through the southern part of the Red Sea where several ships have been attacked.
”We are pausing the transits due to recent developments,” says Joakim Nørholm Vasehus, head of communications at Torm. | Photo: Marine Traffic / Rasmus Hoffmann
”We are pausing the transits due to recent developments,” says Joakim Nørholm Vasehus, head of communications at Torm. | Photo: Marine Traffic / Rasmus Hoffmann
by DAG HOLMSTAD

Torm has decided that the company’s tankers will not sail all the way through the Red Sea, which in the past two months has been the scene of numerous military attacks on the international merchant fleet, the company confirms to ShippingWatch.

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