The new Suez canal crisis

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Even in the final days of 2023, we have a new crisis threatening to disrupt vital trade through the Suez Canal.

Global shipping companies have rerouted their ships due to attacks by Houthi militants from Yemen at the northern end of the Red Sea.

The Weekend Brief will look at the drastic changes to major shipping routes while the narrow Red Sea passage continues to remind us of the inescapable physicality of our ever-digitizing world.

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