The 7,154 teu SANTA CATARINA MAERSK and 8,648 teu CLEMENTINE MAERSK have made the first passages through the Bab el-Mandeb by Maersk vessels since 1 March 2026. SANTA CATARINA MAERSK was on a positioning trip from China to the Med and made its Suez passage on 4 June 2026 while CLEMENTINE MAERSK made the westbound Suez Canal passage on 13 June 2026 on its way from Salalah to New York on Maersk's Middle East-India to East Coast US (MECL) service, marking the first trans-Suez voyages by Maersk sinc