Middle East crisis becomes an African opportunity as 3 Saudi oil tankers bound for India and China turn back after Houthi warning

Middle East turmoil is redrawing global oil routes in Africa’s favour, sending more vessels around the Cape of Good Hope and strengthening the continent’s ports and maritime service centres, a shift now reinforced by Saudi crude tankers bound for India and China making U-turns in the Red Sea following Yemen’s Houthi warning.