Two bulkers have already turned away from the Suez Canal, where more than 70 dry cargo vessels are stuck in congestion, according to vessel-tracking data.

Bulker-tracking platform Oceanbolt has identified two laden kamsarmaxes that would otherwise have transited the canal, but instead appeared to divert into the mid-Atlantic last Thursday.

Transmed's 84,000-dwt Ledra (built 2013) has altered its course away from the Mediterranean, as has the 82,000-dwt BBG Guigang...