War in Gaza has so far led to attacks on merchant vessels transiting the Red Sea, but some experts are also concerned about the spread of vessel attacks to Somali pirates operating in the Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea region.
Lemissoler Navigation and Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and Research Institute (SDARI) received ABS approval in principle (AiP) for their design of a 65,000 dwt methanol-fueled ultramax bulk carrier.