{"id":203751,"date":"2025-08-01T21:22:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/north-africa-number-of-ships-transiting-suez-canal-declines-from-80-to-35-vessels-per-day-due-to-houthis-attacks-sca-chief\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T21:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:22:58","slug":"north-africa-number-of-ships-transiting-suez-canal-declines-from-80-to-35-vessels-per-day-due-to-houthis-attacks-sca-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/north-africa-number-of-ships-transiting-suez-canal-declines-from-80-to-35-vessels-per-day-due-to-houthis-attacks-sca-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"North Africa: Number of Ships Transiting Suez Canal Declines From 80 to 35 Vessels Per Day Due to Houthis&#8217; Attacks &#8211; Sca Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Houthi attacks in the Red Sea have severely disrupted maritime navigation through the Suez Canal, with the number of transiting ships dropping from 70-80 vessels per day to just 30-35, said Admiral Osama Rabie, Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), during celebrations marking the 69th anniversary of the Canal&#8217;s nationalization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">Despite daily challenges, Admiral Rabie emphasized that the Suez Canal remains one of the world&#8217;s most vital maritime routes. He stressed that the Canal&#8217;s long&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508010454.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houthi attacks in the Red Sea have severely disrupted maritime navigation through the Suez Canal, with the number of transiting ships dropping from 70-80 vessels per day to just 30-35, said Admiral Osama Rabie, Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), during celebrations marking the 69th anniversary of the Canal&#8217;s nationalization. Despite daily challenges, Admiral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":203752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00580299:5a695ec077c35d4cac14f02edcb65523:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,306,16594,6510,7165,14017,6605,415,52008,257,6732,7043,38970,8999,254,16593,52007,21377],"class_list":["post-203751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attacks","tag-canal","tag-chief","tag-day","tag-declines","tag-due","tag-egypt-news","tag-houthis","tag-news","tag-north","tag-number","tag-sca","tag-ships","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suez","tag-transiting","tag-vessels"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00580299:5a695ec077c35d4cac14f02edcb65523:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}