
The Red Sea, one of the worldโs most vital maritime corridors, is under unprecedented threat. In early July 2025, the commercial bulk carriers MV Eternity C and MV Magic Seas, both Liberia-flagged and Greek-managed, were sunk in brazen attacks by Yemenโs Houthi rebels. This marks a dangerous escalation in the Red Sea crisis, with profound implications for global shipping, trade, and maritime security.
๐ข The Attacks Unfold
On 6 July 2025, the MV Magic Seas was assaulted by a coordinated strike: drones, small boats, rocket-propelled grenades, and armed boarding parties. After evacuating the 22 crew members, the Houthis rigged the vessel with explosives and sank it. Just two days later, on 7โ8 July, the MV Eternity C came under attack. Despite distress calls, the ship was bombarded with sea drones, missiles, and heavy gunfire, leaving at least 4 dead, 10 rescued, and several missing or reportedly kidnapped.
The Houthis later released dramatic video footage, showing the Eternity C engulfed in flames before slipping beneath the waves. This footage spread rapidly on social media, shocking the maritime world.
โ Why It Matters
The Red Sea is a lifeline of global trade, connecting the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean through the Suez Canal. Around 12% of global trade passes through this corridor โ oil, gas, grains, manufactured goods. But now, the shipping lanes have turned into a war zone.
With these attacks, major shipping lines are rerouting vessels around the Cape of Good Hope, adding weeks to delivery times and millions in costs. War-risk insurance premiums have soared, and some underwriters have suspended coverage altogether.
The environmental risk is also severe. Sunken ships like the Eternity C carried oil and chemicals, threatening marine ecosystems. Salvage operations are delayed or impossible due to ongoing conflict and the risk of new attacks.
๐ A Maritime Security Wake-Up Call
For maritime security experts and governments, these sinkings are a loud alarm. Despite international naval patrols, the Houthis have demonstrated advanced asymmetric warfare capabilities, blending drones, sea mines, missiles, and propaganda.
Efforts are underway to bolster international convoys, deploy private maritime security teams, and improve early-warning systems. But analysts warn: unless the root political conflict in Yemen is addressed, the Red Sea will remain a high-risk zone.
๐ก๏ธ MarePress View
As MarePress, we see this as a crucial moment for the global maritime community. Shipping companies, navies, insurers, and policymakers must unite to protect this critical artery. Failure to secure the Red Sea could ripple across supply chains, global markets, and regional stability.
๐ Sources: Reuters, AP News, The Times of Israel, Financial Times, MarineTraffic
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๐ [MarePress] ํํด ์๊ธฐ: ์ต๊ทผ ์ ๋ฐ ์นจ๋ชฐ, ์ธ๊ณ ํด์ ์๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋คํ๋ค๋ค
ํํด๋ ์ง์คํด์ ์ธ๋์์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐํ๋ ์ธ๊ณ ํด์ ๋ฌด์ญ์ ํต์ฌ ๋ฃจํธ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ 2025๋ 7์, ์ด๊ณณ์์ ๋ฐ์ํ ๋ ๊ฑด์ ์ ๋ฐ ์นจ๋ชฐ ์ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ ์ธ๊ณ ํด์์ ๊ณ์ ํฐ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ ์ฃผ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฆฌ๋ฒ ๋ฆฌ์ ๊ตญ์ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์ค ๊ด๋ฆฌ์ ํ๋ฌผ์ MV Magic Seas์ MV Eternity C๊ฐ ์๋ฉ ํํฐ ๋ฐ๊ตฐ์ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ผ๋ก ์๋ฌ์ ์นจ๋ชฐํ์ต๋๋ค.
๐ข ์ฌ๊ฑด ๊ฐ์
- 2025๋ 7์ 6์ผ: MV Magic Seas๋ ๋๋ก , ์ํ ๋ณดํธ, ๋ก์ผ ์ถ์ง ์ ํ(RPG), ๋ฌด์ฅ ์ธ๋ ฅ์ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. ์น๋ฌด์ 22๋ช ์ ๊ธด๊ธ ๋ํผํ์ง๋ง, ํํฐ๋ ์ ๋ฐ์ ํญ๋ฐ๋ฌผ์ ์ค์นํด ์นจ๋ชฐ์์ผฐ์ต๋๋ค.
- 2025๋ 7์ 7~8์ผ: MV Eternity C๋ ํด์ ๋๋ก , ๋ฏธ์ฌ์ผ, ์คํ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ณต๊ฒฉ๋นํด ๋ํ๋์๊ณ , ์ต์ 4๋ช ์ฌ๋ง, 10๋ช ๊ตฌ์กฐ, ์ฌ๋ฌ ๋ช ์ค์ข ยท๋ฉ์น๋ก ์ด์ด์ก์ต๋๋ค. ํํฐ๋ ์ด ์ฌ๊ฑด์ ์์์ ๊ณต๊ฐํด ๊ตญ์ ์ฌํ์ ๊ณต๋ถ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
โ ์ ์ค์ํ๊ฐ?
ํํด๋ฅผ ์ง๋๋ ๋ฌด์ญ๋์ ์ ์ธ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ญ์ ์ฝ “12%” ์ ๋ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์์ , ๊ฐ์ค, ๊ณก๋ฌผ, ์ ์กฐํ ๋ฑ ํ์ ์์์ด ์ด๊ณณ์ ํตํด ์ด๋ํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ต๊ทผ ์ฌ๊ฑด ์ดํ ์ฃผ์ ํด์ด์ฌ๋ค์ ํํด๋ฅผ ํผํ๊ณ ํฌ๋ง๋ด ๊ฒฝ๋ก๋ก ์ฐํํ๊ธฐ ์์ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ก ์ธํด ์ด์ก ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ฃผ ๋์ด๋๊ณ , ๋น์ฉ์ ์๋ฐฑ๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ ์์นํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
๋ํ, ์นจ๋ชฐ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ค๋ ค ์๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ, ํํ๋ฌผ์ง ์ ์ถ๋ก ์ธํ ํ๊ฒฝ ํผํด๊ฐ ์ฐ๋ ค๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๊ตฌ๋ ์์ ์กฐ์ฐจ๋ ๋ฌด์ฅ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ ์ํ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์ ๋๋ก ์งํ๋์ง ๋ชปํ๋ ์ค์ ์ ๋๋ค.
๐ ํด์ ์๋ณด์ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ๋ฑ
์ด๋ฒ ์ฌํ๋ ํด๊ตฐ๊ณผ ์ ๋ถ์ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ์ ๋๋ค. ํํฐ๋ ๋๋ก , ํด์ ๊ธฐ๋ขฐ, ๋ฏธ์ฌ์ผ, ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ์์๊น์ง ๋์ํ๋ฉฐ ๋น๋์นญ ์ ์ ์ ๊ตฌ์ฌํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ตญ์ ํด์ ํธ์ ๊ฐํ, ๋ฏผ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ๋น ํฌ์ , ์กฐ๊ธฐ๊ฒฝ๋ณด ์ฒด๊ณ ๊ตฌ์ถ์ด ์๊ธํ์ง๋ง, ์๋ฉ ๋ด์ ์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ทผ๋ณธ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ํด๊ฒฐ๋์ง ์๋ ํ ํํด์ ์ํ์ ๊ณ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค.
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๐ ์ฐธ๊ณ ์๋ฃ: Reuters, AP News, The Times of Israel, Financial Times, MarineTraffic
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