(FILES) A picture taken March 1, 2022 shows a view of cranes and shipping containers at a loading dock of Jeddah's Islamic Seaport on Saudi Arabia's western Red Sea coast. 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 Fayez Nureldine / AFP via Getty Images)