Recently, another country's shipping logistics market, suffered a sudden armed conflict impact!

This is the East African country of Sudan!

It is reported that since the outbreak of the conflict on April 15, Sudan's transportation has been seriously affected. Sudan Airlines announced that in view of the changes in Sudan's domestic security situation, it has decided to suspend all domestic and international flights, and major container shipping companies have also taken prompt action!
Recently, including Maersk, Orient overseas, including a number of shipping companies issued an emergency notice, announced the suspension of receiving Sudan's new booking!

Suspend receiving Sudan all new booking

Yesterday (April 19), OOCL issued a notice saying that from now on, it will stop receiving all Sudan bkg (including Sudan in the transshipment clause).

The official announcement and detailed arrangements are as follows:

Cancel, dissuade all Sudan flow booking

In addition to OOOCL, another shipping company also in the first time to the customer issued an emergency stop to pick up the Sudan flow of goods notice.

Here are the notification details:

Maersk: Emergency closure of Sudan office

On April 19, the shipping company Maersk issued a notice that in view of the Sudanese armed forces and rapid support forces after the outbreak of conflict in the Sudan situation, Maersk in Khartoum and Port Sudan offices will be closed until further notice.

Maersk said that employees' safety and health are of paramount importance and has launched a crisis response plan to provide them with necessary support.

In addition, Maersk added: We understand that the current situation has disrupted your business operations, and we are closely monitoring the development of the situation to better understand how to safely resume operations.

Source: one shipping