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Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd announced that their ME1 India–Northern Europe container service will return to the Suez Canal, ending its Cape of Good Hope detour, starting with a voyage departing Salalah on November 4. Drewry reports the highest weekly Suez container transit count of 2026 amid a gradual Red Sea return.
Shorter Suez routings free up container capacity, adding to existing overcapacity and likely pressuring container freight rates lower, which slightly eases shipping costs for feed ingredient imports from Asia to Europe.
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