How escorting contained the Italian Red Sea threat

How was the early Italian threat in the Red Sea resolved for supply shipping?

Escorts, some Cape rerouting, and the rapid reduction of Italian naval power made the route manageable again.

Escorted convoys through the Red Sea, together with some transshipment or rerouting around the Cape, kept supplies moving. British naval forces also attacked the Italian flotilla and its submarines. HMS Leander sank the Italian merchant raider Ramb I, while Ramb II and the colonial sloop Eritrea escaped east to Kobe, showing that the early contest still produced Italian successes. Italian forces could not sustain a serious challenge after early 1941, and German surface raiders followed by Japanese forces became the larger threats to eastern shipping.