One of world's biggest shipping groups will reroute away from Red Sea

CMA CGM, a French-based shipping container group, said on Friday it was going to reroute a weekly service between Europe and Australia to avoid attacks in the Red Sea

The company was expecting a disruption in its regular route that would last months.

Rather than going through the Red Sea and Suez Canal, it would go through the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.

Despite US efforts to attack Houthi positions in Yemen and impose sanctions on them, the armed group continues to attack vessels and has said it would continue to target any vessel headed towards Israel.