EU Needs More Ships for Red Sea; European Navies Adjust Hormuz Deployments

The European Union is asking its members to increase the number of ships deployed with European Naval Force Aspides, which is tasked with accompanying merchant ships in the Red Sea to protect them from Houthi attacks. “We need more vessels because literally there are commercial ships that are waiting in the queue to receive the escort that we do not have enough frigates that can do that,” EU High Representative Kaja Kallas said Monday, according to a transcript following a meeting of EU Defense

Source: USNI News