Why Houthi attacks are not likely to cease soon

With the Houthis escalating their attacks on commercial vessels, global shipping firms are being forced to make hard choices regarding their operational focus amid rerouting, absorbing high insurance premiums, or gambling with transit through one of the world’s most volatile corridors.

Despite months of military responses and international outcry, the Iran-backed Houthi movement remains operationally resilient and ideologically committed. It seems that the threat to Red Sea shipping is not going away anytime soon and the repercussions are reverberating across the maritime world.