In this episode, Sal Mercogliano - a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner - discusses the current situation in and around the Red Sea and should the US continue to protect ships in the region or shift and focus on US-flagged or allied vessels.
His conclusion is that the US is losing as NATO ships are still avoiding the Suez Canal transit while BRICS countries identify themselves as such on the transponder to sail through. 
yes, china uses it still. so do countries like sudan, egypt, saudi, liberia, russia, india, etc.
plenty of the open information is even listing publicly the crew's nationality, whole crew being muslim, indians with no contact to israel, number of armed guards, etc as their destination. because yemen is tracking all ship locations