Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd resume more sailings through the Suez Canal (updated)
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COPENHAGEN, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Danish shipping group Maersk MAERSKb.CO said on Monday that another container service in its Gemini network with Germany's Hapag-Lloyd HLAG.DE will resume sailing through the Red Sea and Suez Canal, part of a gradual return to the area.
The Asia-Europe trade corridor through the Suez Canal was abandoned by most shippers earlier this decade after attacks in the Red Sea by Yemen's Houthis, forcing ships to take the much longer trip around Africa's Cape of Good Hope.
But Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd in early July announced that they would resume a service connecting Asia, the Mediterranean and Europe through the Suez Canal, and Maersk later also said a Middle East-to-U.S. East Coast service would do the same.
(Reporting by Louise Rasmussen, editing by Terje Solsvik)
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