๐ŸŒŠ [MarePress] Red Sea Crisis: Recent Ship Sinkings Shake Global Maritime Security

The Red Sea, one of the worldโ€™s 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 Yemenโ€™s Houthi rebels. This marks a dangerous escalation in the Red Sea crisis, with profound implications for global shipping, trade, and maritime security.


๐Ÿšข 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 7โ€“8 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.


โš“ 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.


๐ŸŒ 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.


๐Ÿ›ก๏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.


๐Ÿ”— Sources: Reuters, AP News, The Times of Israel, Financial Times, MarineTraffic

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๐ŸŒŠ [MarePress] ํ™ํ•ด ์œ„๊ธฐ: ์ตœ๊ทผ ์„ ๋ฐ• ์นจ๋ชฐ, ์„ธ๊ณ„ ํ•ด์–‘ ์•ˆ๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋’คํ”๋“ค๋‹ค

ํ™ํ•ด๋Š” ์ง€์ค‘ํ•ด์™€ ์ธ๋„์–‘์„ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•˜๋Š” ์„ธ๊ณ„ ํ•ด์ƒ ๋ฌด์—ญ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋ฃจํŠธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ 2025๋…„ 7์›”, ์ด๊ณณ์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•œ ๋‘ ๊ฑด์˜ ์„ ๋ฐ• ์นจ๋ชฐ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ํ•ด์–‘์—…๊ณ„์— ํฐ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์„ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฆฌ๋ฒ ๋ฆฌ์•„ ๊ตญ์ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์Šค ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์˜ ํ™”๋ฌผ์„  MV Magic Seas์™€ MV Eternity C๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ๋ฉ˜ ํ›„ํ‹ฐ ๋ฐ˜๊ตฐ์˜ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ž‡๋‹ฌ์•„ ์นจ๋ชฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿšข ์‚ฌ๊ฑด ๊ฐœ์š”

  • 2025๋…„ 7์›” 6์ผ: MV Magic Seas๋Š” ๋“œ๋ก , ์†Œํ˜• ๋ณดํŠธ, ๋กœ์ผ“ ์ถ”์ง„ ์œ ํƒ„(RPG), ๋ฌด์žฅ ์„ธ๋ ฅ์˜ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šน๋ฌด์› 22๋ช…์€ ๊ธด๊ธ‰ ๋Œ€ํ”ผํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ํ›„ํ‹ฐ๋Š” ์„ ๋ฐ•์— ํญ๋ฐœ๋ฌผ์„ ์„ค์น˜ํ•ด ์นจ๋ชฐ์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • 2025๋…„ 7์›” 7~8์ผ: MV Eternity C๋Š” ํ•ด์ƒ ๋“œ๋ก , ๋ฏธ์‚ฌ์ผ, ์ค‘ํ™”๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ๋‹นํ•ด ๋Œ€ํŒŒ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ตœ์†Œ 4๋ช… ์‚ฌ๋ง, 10๋ช… ๊ตฌ์กฐ, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ช… ์‹ค์ข…ยท๋‚ฉ์น˜๋กœ ์ด์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ›„ํ‹ฐ๋Š” ์ด ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์˜ ์˜์ƒ์„ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•ด ๊ตญ์ œ ์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ๊ณต๋ถ„์„ ์ƒ€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โš“ ์™œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ๊ฐ€?

ํ™ํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฌด์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์€ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๋ฌด์—ญ์˜ ์•ฝ “12%” ์— ๋‹ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์›์œ , ๊ฐ€์Šค, ๊ณก๋ฌผ, ์ œ์กฐํ’ˆ ๋“ฑ ํ•„์ˆ˜ ์ž์›์ด ์ด๊ณณ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด๋™ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด ์ดํ›„ ์ฃผ์š” ํ•ด์šด์‚ฌ๋“ค์€ ํ™ํ•ด๋ฅผ ํ”ผํ•˜๊ณ  ํฌ๋ง๋ด‰ ๊ฒฝ๋กœ๋กœ ์šฐํšŒํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์šด์†ก ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์€ ์ˆ˜ ์ฃผ ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ , ๋น„์šฉ์€ ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ƒ์Šนํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋˜ํ•œ, ์นจ๋ชฐ ์„ ๋ฐ•์— ์‹ค๋ ค ์žˆ๋˜ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„, ํ™”ํ•™๋ฌผ์งˆ ์œ ์ถœ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ํ”ผํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ ค๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตฌ๋‚œ ์ž‘์—…์กฐ์ฐจ๋„ ๋ฌด์žฅ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ ์œ„ํ—˜ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š” ์‹ค์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๐ŸŒ ํ•ด์–‘ ์•ˆ๋ณด์˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ๋“ฑ

์ด๋ฒˆ ์‚ฌํƒœ๋Š” ํ•ด๊ตฐ๊ณผ ์ •๋ถ€์— ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ›„ํ‹ฐ๋Š” ๋“œ๋ก , ํ•ด์ƒ ๊ธฐ๋ขฐ, ๋ฏธ์‚ฌ์ผ, ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์ „ ์˜์ƒ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋™์›ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋น„๋Œ€์นญ ์ „์ˆ ์„ ๊ตฌ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตญ์ œ ํ•ด์ƒ ํ˜ธ์œ„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”, ๋ฏผ๊ฐ„ ๊ฒฝ๋น„ ํˆฌ์ž…, ์กฐ๊ธฐ๊ฒฝ๋ณด ์ฒด๊ณ„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•์ด ์‹œ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์˜ˆ๋ฉ˜ ๋‚ด์ „์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ทผ๋ณธ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ํ•œ ํ™ํ•ด์˜ ์œ„ํ—˜์€ ๊ณ„์†๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ MarePress์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ

MarePress๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ์‚ฌํƒœ๋ฅผ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํ•ด์–‘ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ๊ฐ€ ๋‹จ๊ฒฐํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒฐ์ •์  ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•ด์šด์‚ฌ, ํ•ด๊ตฐ, ๋ณดํ—˜์‚ฌ, ์ •์ฑ… ์ž…์•ˆ์ž๋“ค์ด ํž˜์„ ๋ชจ์•„์•ผ ํ™ํ•ด์˜ ์•ˆ๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ง€ํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ๋†“์น˜๋ฉด ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ๋ถ•๊ดด, ์‹œ์žฅ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ, ์ง€์—ญ ์ •์„ธ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ •์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿ”— ์ฐธ๊ณ  ์ž๋ฃŒ: Reuters, AP News, The Times of Israel, Financial Times, MarineTraffic

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