The Red Sea crisis has forced shipping lines to sail around the Cape of Good Hope, increasing sailing distances and de facto increasing transit times as well. Care must be taken while looking into transit times, as headline grabbing numbers may be technically feasible, but often come with a caveat; they are on uncompetitive port-pairs that are not marketed by carriers as such. For an apples-to-apples comparison, we need to look at the shortest actual transit times for a port-pair i.e., the minimum transit time. (....)