In October, nearly all global shipping companies are planning to resume transit through the Suez Canal on routes from Asia to Europe. The Premier Alliance has announced that one of its vessels will again navigate through the Red Sea and the canal.
The schedule for the One Continuity, which has a capacity of 8,100 TEU and is operated by the Japanese company ONE, indicates it will leave Laem Chabang on October 19. The vessel has been reassigned to the Premier Alliance's FE1 Asia-North Europe service.
As per Xeneta’s eeSea liner database, the One Continuity was previously used on ONE’s Asia-South America east coast SX1 service, in collaboration with partners HMM and Yang Ming.
The new FE1 schedule shows that the One Continuity is expected to reach the Suez Canal on November 9, and then head to its first European port, Rotterdam, on November 19.
Other vessels in the FE1 service, including the 9,000 TEU NYK Venus, the 8,200 TEU ONE Hamburg, and the 9,000 TEU NYK Orion, are also set to pass through the Suez Canal after departing Asia in November and December.
Additionally, Cosco is preparing to transit the Suez Canal westbound for the first time since the start of the Red Sea Crisis, which began at the beginning of 2025.
On October 4, after completing nine eastbound voyages via the canal since mid-September, Cosco’s OOCL Spain, with a capacity of 24,200 TEU, will make its first westbound journey through the Suez in more than two years, as noted by Linerlytica.
This service is part of the Ocean Alliance's Asia-North Europe routes, referred to as NEU1 and FAL5 for CMA CGM customers.
Linerlytica also reported that last week was the busiest for container ship transits through the Suez Canal since 2024, with 30 ships carrying over 4,000 TEU passing through.
Since May, an estimated 140 container ships have shifted from routes around the Cape of Good Hope to the Suez route, providing just over 2 million TEU in capacity.
The renewed interest in Suez routes may be linked to a letter from the Houthi rebels to the EU, where they pledged not to target European cargo ships.
According to a report from the UK Financial Times, during a Houthi offensive along the Yemen coast in September, which included capturing the port of Mocha, rebel leaders sent this message to the EU’s diplomatic service on September 10.