The Houthis attacks on vessels transiting the waterways off Yemen’s coast have become a “new normal” in the region, continuing the disruption to the global shipping industry.

The number of Houthi attempted attacks fluctuates each month, but they have repeatedly demonstrated the threat they pose to vessels sailing through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Several major shipping companies have decided to change their shipping routes to go on much longer and expensive voyages around the southern tip of Africa to avoid the possibility of an attack, but there is still some traffic that goes through the Suez Canal.