A spokesperson for the German shipping company "Hapag-Lloyd" announced today, Tuesday, that "the company will continue to avoid routing its ships through the Suez Canal for security reasons." The spokesperson for the fifth-largest container shipping company in the world, in response to an inquiry, said, "We are monitoring the situation closely day by day, but we will continue to divert our ships until January 9." He added, "The company will decide on that day whether to continue diverting the ships or not."