The president of the United States, Donald Trump, on Saturday, April 26, urged free traffic for US commercial and military ships through the channels of Panama and Suez, marking his secretary of state to progress “immediately.”
Trump has been asking for months to take control of the Panama Canal, but its publication on social networks also changed the approach to the vital route of Suez. “American ships, both military and commercial, must travel, without charge, through the channels of Panama and Suez!” He wrote on his true social platform. He affirmed that both routes “would not exist” without the United States and said he had asked the Secretary of State Marco Rubio to “immediately take care of the situation.
The Suez channel in Egypt, a key river route that joins Europe and Asia, represented approximately 10% of global maritime trade before the attacks of Yemen Huthi’s rebels on the shipping routes in the Red Sea and Aden’s Gulf. The rebels backed by Iran began to attack ships after the beginning of the Gaza War, claiming solidarity with the Palestinians, forcing ships to take a long and expensive detour around the end of southern Africa.
Egypt said last year that their channel income had yielded 60%, a loss or $ 7 billion.
The American army has been attacking Huti positions since January 2024, but those assaults have intensified with Trump, with almost daily strikes in the last month. Trump has promised that military action is constituted until the hutis are no longer a threat to shipping.
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