(FILES) People sit on a bench on the Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah Causeway as a Zhonggu Shipping container ship sails past on its way towards the port of Shuwaikh in Kuwait City on February 28, 2026. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and particularly tensions in the Red Sea, are reshaping the logistics routes for goods trade, with Africa becoming a hub for global container traffic, according to logistics and maritime sources. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and particularly tensions in the Red Sea, are reshaping the logistics routes for goods trade, with Africa becoming a hub for global container traffic, according to logistics and maritime sources. Locally, over the past two months, the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has also prompted shipowners to find alternative land routes to deliver, by lorry, foodstuffs and manufactured goods that can no longer reach the Gulf's coastal countries by sea. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP via Getty Images)