{"id":14022,"date":"2026-03-06T11:10:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=14022"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:22:28","slug":"conflict-leaves-about-140-container-ships-stranded","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/news\/conflict-leaves-about-140-container-ships-stranded\/","title":{"rendered":"Conflict Leaves About 140 Container Ships Stranded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Nearly 140 container ships&nbsp;are currently stuck in the&nbsp;Arabian Gulf&nbsp;as the conflict in the&nbsp;Middle East continues to disrupt shipping.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shipandbunker.com\/news\/emea\/541067-middle-east-conflict-leaves-about-140-container-ships-stranded-in-the-gulf\">Ship and Bunker<\/a>&nbsp;reported that security concerns have made the&nbsp;Strait of Hormuz&nbsp;and&nbsp;Bab-el-Mandeb&nbsp;unsafe for navigation, leaving shipping lines to suspend vessel movements, according to freight consultancy Alphaliner. Based upon their figures, 138 container ships&nbsp;with a combined capacity of nearly 470,000 TEU&nbsp;were sheltering in the Gulf as of the beginning of March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of those shipping lines most affected, MSC\u00a0and\u00a0CMA CGM\u00a0have 15 vessels (109,000 TEUs) and 14 vessels (70,000 TEUs) respectively, currently trapped. The port of Jebel Ali in the United Arab Emirates has about 20 ships berthed there and Alphaliner forecasts the disruption could affect about\u00a010.7%\u00a0of the global container fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For airfreight, flights are slowly resuming with Emirates, Etihad, Flydubai,&nbsp;and some other carriers operating a number of ad hoc flights aimed at moving cargo and repatriating passengers. Most regional airline schedules are canceled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 140 container ships&nbsp;are currently stuck in the&nbsp;Arabian Gulf&nbsp;as the conflict in the&nbsp;Middle East continues to disrupt shipping. Ship and Bunker&nbsp;reported that security concerns have made the&nbsp;Strait of Hormuz&nbsp;and&nbsp;Bab-el-Mandeb&nbsp;unsafe for navigation, leaving shipping lines to suspend vessel movements, according to freight consultancy Alphaliner. Based upon their figures, 138 container ships&nbsp;with a combined capacity of nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"footnotes":""},"news-category":[31],"class_list":["post-14022","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14032,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14022\/revisions\/14032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamovers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=14022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}