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Potential Return of Container Ships to Red Sea Following US-Houthi Ceasefire Could Collapse Freight Rates

May 8, 2025

The prospect of a large scale return of container ships to the Red Sea following the announcement of a ceasefire between the US and Houthi militia in Yemen would flood the market with shipping capacity and cause a global collapse in freight rates, but the situation remains far from certain.

Data released by Xeneta, an ocean and air freight intelligence platform, shows global TEU-mile demand would decrease 6% if container ships begin sailing through the Red Sea and Suez Canal again instead of diverting around the Cape of Good Hope.

TEU-mile demand factors the distance each 20ft equivalent container (TEU) is transported globally as well as the number transported. The 6% is based on global container shipping demand growth of 1% for full year 2025 and a large scale return of container ships to the Red Sea in H2.

“Of all the geo-political disruptions impacting ocean container shipping in 2025, conflict in the Red Sea continues to cast the longest shadow, so any meaningful return to the region would have massive consequences," said Peter Sand, Xeneta Chief Analyst. “Container ships returning to the Red Sea would flood the market with capacity with the inevitable outcome of collapsing freight rates. If we also see a continued slowdown in imports into the US due to tariffs, then the collapse will be even harder and even more dramatic.”

Average spot rates from the Far East to North Europe and Mediterranean are USD 2100 per FEU (40ft container) and USD 3125 per FEU respectively. This is an increase of 39% and 68% compared to pre-Red Sea Crisis levels on 1 December 2023.

From the Far East to US East Coast and US West Coast, spot rates stand at USD 3715 per FEU and USD 2620 per FEU respectively. This is an increase of 49% and 59% compared to pre-Red Sea Crisis.

While Sand believes spot rates could collapse back to pre-Red Sea Crisis levels, he has warned the situation remains volatile and requires a sense of reality on the complexity involved in container ships returning to the Suez Canal. “Carriers need assurances over long term safety of their crew and ships, let alone customers’ cargo. Perhaps even more importantly, so do insurance companies."

https://www.marinelink[dot]com/news/potential-return-container-ships-red-sea-525518

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>>13637872

>how about comfy happening in iran

Hydro-sonic comfyness

>>13638135

>>13640357

>I'm not watching Jewtube and certainly will never follow a youtube link from this website.

I don't care. I only post them here because then I can watch them myself without annoying fucking commercials every 6 minutes, and they are all videos that are specifically relevant to the thread topic.

Like the man with the one inch cock who gets asked by the whore:

>Who do you thing you're going to satisfy with that?

Me.

>>13640399

Sorry if I touched a nerve. My better half thought it was hillarious. She also laughed at this (webm rel) one. I hope it doesn't trigger you like the first one did.

Looks like US airstrikes on the Houthis in Yemen may be back on the menu.

If Trump is giving Zelensky long range weapons to strike inside of Russia, Putin should give Iran Oreshniks to strike Israel's nuclear weapons storage and manufacturing (including Dimona) facilities.

https://www.securityincontext.org/posts/merchants-of-death-israels-permanent-war-economy

Merchants Of Death: Israel's Permanent War Economy

Tariq Dana Jan 29, 2024

Abstract: This study posits that war economy is fundamental to Israel, critically examining four key aspects that sustain it: the deep-rooted extremist militarism within the Israeli state and society, the distinctive US military patronage, the routinized testing of advanced military and security technologies on Palestinians, and the use of international arms trade and militarized diplomacy as a geopolitical strategy. It traces the roots of this war economy to the period of pre-state Zionist colonization, emphasizing its centrality to Israel's settler-colonial identity. The research underscores the interaction of these elements, demonstrating their collective role in Israel's militarized structures and functions, which result in fatal consequences not only for the Palestinians but also for regional and global peace and stability.

Category: Research

Resource Type:Policy Paper

Region: Middle East

Research Track:Global Capitalism and Transnational War Economies

https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63624397be3141e7fd81285d/65b7cdff41a61aaba369ee4a_Merchants%20of%20Death_%20Israel%27s%20Permanent%20War%20Economy%20PDF.pdf

>>13641415

What does the NRO think about War and Economy?

>>13641461

>What does the NRO think about War and Economy?

I don't think they think. Orders are what they carry out. Work for the jew.

>>13641502

>Melany is Canada's most intelligent politician.

She's the most antisemitic diplomat of a larger country I've seen. I honor her intelligence.

>>13642976

BOOM!

It's on youtube, kikes here are blocking embed.

https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/622436-menashe-us-trapped-israel/

https://rumble.com/c/GoingUnderground

https://rumble.com/v6x2mbu-israel-has-trump-and-us-govt-captive-via-epstein-blackmail-israeli-ex-intel.html

Iran's Pezeshkian criticises Netanyahu's pledge to help in water crisis

Jeremiah Fisayo-Bambi 14/08/2025 - 7:26 GMT+2 •Updated 9:43

>Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s offer to help the country deal with its water crisis, saying he should first address the situation in Gaza.

>Pezeshkian's response came as Netanyahu addressed Iranians in a video message on Tuesday, pledging that Israel would help solve the country’s severe water shortages once Iran is “free” from the current government, according to Israeli media.

https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/14/irans-president-pezeshkian-mocks-netanyahu-over-pledge-of-help-in-water-crisis

Iran’s Next-Door Neighbor Accused Of Stealing Rain Clouds As Severe Drought Sweeps Through The Country

Sanam Mahoozi Jan 11, 2024, 07:00pm EST, Updated Mar 26, 2024, 01:58pm EDT

>It all started with a few images that went viral on social media.

>Over the past two months, photos have been circulating on platforms showing contrasting weather conditions in Turkey and Iran. While Turkey exhibits cloudy skies and snow-covered mountaintops, just across the border in Iran, there appears to be nothing but empty skies and dry mountains.

>What seems to be a stark difference in rainfall and snowfall patterns between two neighboring countries has since raised questions among Iranians as to why.

>One theory going around suggests that Turkey is somehow stealing Iran’s clouds. “Cloud stealing” is a term referring to the belief or accusation that countries are using technology to manipulate weather patterns to divert rain clouds away from a specific area.

>This could be possible through a practice called cloud seeding, a weather-modification technique that involves introducing certain substances into clouds to enhance their ability to produce rain or snow.

>Governments such as Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have initiated weather-modification programs, opening doors for further accusations of environmental hostilities in a region already fraught with tensions.

>China carried it out during the 2022 Winter Olympics to control weather conditions. Russian firefighters have also reportedly seeded clouds to bring down rain over the 2020 wildfires in Siberia. https://www.reuters.com/article/world/russia-seeds-clouds-in-siberia-to-douse-raging-wildfires-idUSKBN24B1K2/

>The Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques went into effect in 1978 and has been ratified by 78 countries, including the United States, China, Britain, Germany and Russia. https://disarmament.unoda.org/enmod/

>Nevertheless, “the existing legal measures and international agreements in place are weak,” says [Kaveh] Madani (director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health.)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sanammahoozi/2024/01/11/irans-next-door-neighbor-accused-of-stealing-rain-clouds-as-severe-drought-sweeps-through-the-country/

‘Little control’: World War 3 could be fought with ‘weaponised’ weather

Rain, hail or shine, experts have warned that weather modification could set off a chain of events that “we have little control over”.

Sayan Bose – The Sun August 13, 2025 - 1:18AM

>Dr Jim Flemming, a weather expert, told The Sun: “The military in the Cold War era, the generals would say that if you can control the weather, you can control the world. “You can control the enemy; you can do anything you want.”

>Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, former chemical weapons adviser for the British military, told The Sun it was a “very plausible” threat. He said: “You need the oxygen in a cloud to mix with a chemical to create a toxic substance – it would be very hit and miss. “But if you are not concerned about indiscriminate casualties and just want to create terror and fear, it could be pretty effective.” “If you seeded a cloud which then produced ‘acid-rain’ you could conceivably say it is a chemical weapon. “The same goes if you seeded a cloud which then rained on crops… that could be chemical warfare.”

>Dr Alan Robock, a scientist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, said: “On a battlefield, you could produce clouds of particles to try and obscure laser-guided weapons of your enemy.”

>Other techniques include Britain using “brute force” during World War II to control the weather for bombers returning in thick fog from Europe. Dr Robock said: “They put trenches of gasoline along the side of the runways and set them on fire. They would heat the air and evaporate the clouds.”

https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/little-control-world-war-3-could-be-fought-with-weaponised-weather/news-story/74145a4aa6daa4858a84a5c76cb21b21