"We haven't really seen the interruption to tanker traffic that everyone was expecting," said Michelle Wiese Bockmann, a shipping analyst at Lloyd's List.
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Since Nov. 19, 55 ships have rerouted via the Cape of Good Hope, while 2,128 have crossed the canal in the same period, the Suez canal authority said.
Convoys of ships coming from the south were being diverted along the original branch of the canal, the canal authority said.
There is a timetable, which makes this perhaps more relevant than the East-Med pipeline idea and is calling for working groups to meet in 60 days.
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The China-bound vessel, which originated in Ukraine, has been cleared for onward travel.
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