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--FILE--A truck transports a container of Maersk unloaded from a container ship on a quay at the Port of Qingdao in Qingdao city, east China's Shandong province, 12 April 2016.

Maersk Line, the world's biggest container shipper, has decided to stop services to and from 10 ports in China as part of a drive to reduce costs. Maersk Line said it would stop serving ports in Chizhou, Luzhou, Yingkou, Jinzhou, Rizhao, Yueyang, Lijiao, Taiping, Jiaoxin and Nansha old port. The ports are currently served by feeder vessels that move goods to larger ports where mega-vessels with capacity of up to 20,000 20-foot containers take over and transport the goods to ports mostly in Europe and the United States.
No Use China. No Use France.
--FILE--A truck transports a container of Maersk unloaded from a container ship on a quay at the Port of Qingdao in Qingdao city, east China's Shandong province, 12 April 2016. Maersk Line, the world's biggest container shipper, has decided to stop services to and from 10 ports in China as part of a drive to reduce costs. Maersk Line said it would stop serving ports in Chizhou, Luzhou, Yingkou, Jinzhou, Rizhao, Yueyang, Lijiao, Taiping, Jiaoxin and Nansha old port. The ports are currently served by feeder vessels that move goods to larger ports where mega-vessels with capacity of up to 20,000 20-foot containers take over and transport the goods to ports mostly in Europe and the United States. No Use China. No Use France.

Maersk says suspending vessels' passage through Red Sea strait

Maersk, one of the world's largest shipping companies, said Friday it was suspending its vessels' passage through a key Red Sea strait following attacks by Yemeni rebels on merchant ships.

"Following the near-miss incident involving Maersk Gibraltar yesterday and yet another attack on a container vessel today, we have instructed all Maersk vessels in the area bound to pass through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to pause their journey until further notice," said a statement to AFP from the Danish firm.

Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels claimed responsibility Thursday for an attack on a cargo ship plying the strait through which a significant portion of the world's shipping passes.

The rebels said the Maersk Gibraltar vessel was "targeted with a drone and the hit was direct," although, according to a US official, the missile missed.

Huthi spokesman Yahya Saree said the attack came after the ship's crew "refused to respond to the calls of the Yemeni naval services", and that it was intended as retaliation for the "oppression of the Palestinian people".

As a response to the Zionist-Hamas war, the rebels have vowed to attack any vessel along the strait that they believe to be headed to Zionist.

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