UKMTO Warning Incident 026 update 001
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UKMTO has received a report of an incident 57NM west of Al Hudaydah, Yemen. Master reports an explosion a distance off the vessel’s starboard side. Vessel and crew are safe.#Marimesecurity #MarSec pic.twitter.com/7y1GK8rFQ6
— United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) (@UK_MTO) February 1, 2024
Middle East news reports today quoted the Houthis as saying they had targeted the “American merchant ship Koi … with several...
UKMTO WARNING
INCIDENT 019 – ATTACK UPDATE 001https://t.co/qlApy9q9pq#MaritimeSecurity #MarSec pic.twitter.com/uhXf1I7V33
— United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) (@UK_MTO) January 24, 2024
This morning brought news from UKMTO of an incident 50 nautical miles south of Al Mukha, Yemen, in which the master of a ship reported an explosion about 100 meters off the vessel’s starboard side. According to a later post on X (formerly Twitter) by U.S. Central Command that ship was the...
Overnight strikes on Houthi infrastructure by the U.S. and U.K. have not yet shut down the group’s attacks on merchant shipping. This morning the U.K. Maritime Trade Office reported an incident in which a missile was fired towards a vessel 90 nautical miles southeast of Aden, Yemen.
UKMTO WARNING 007/JAN/2024 UPDATE 001https://t.co/6a9TLpaLrg#MaritimeSecurity #MarSec pic.twitter.com/eZIBRlsLSo
— United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) (@UK_MTO) January 12, 2024
Al Arabiya cites U.K....
https://www.marinelog.com/legal/shipping/strikes-on-houthis-wont-soon-end-trade-disruptions/
UKMTO WARNING 006/JAN/2024 UPDATE 001https://t.co/6a9TLpaLrg#MaritimeSecurity #MarSec pic.twitter.com/7QvQukJhtk
— United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) (@UK_MTO) January 11, 2024
This morning, the United Kingdom Maritime Trades Office reported that a vessel had been boarded, when 50 miles northeast of Sohar, Oman by 4-5 armed unauthorized boarders wearing black masks and black military style uniforms. The identity of the masked boarders was soon known. The tanker was grabbed by...
An oil tanker was boarded by unidentified armed individuals in military uniforms early this […]
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Bloomberg is reporting that a ship has been attacked by a drone southwest of Veraval, India. The attack caused an explosion and fire on an unidentified ship but no casualties…
https://gcaptain.com/uk-shipping-alert-drone-strikes-spread-to-india/
The Maersk containership Maersk Hamburg has become the third ship in the past few days to be targeted by a Houthi missile attack. Multiple media sources, including the AP, identify the ship and cite an unnamed U.S. official as saying that the missile landed harmlessly is the sea beyond the vessel as it was transiting the Bab el-Mandeb Strait
UKMTO WARNING 007/DEC/2023 – UPDATE 001
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Warnings – 2023 (https://t.co/5An1YH0JyE)#MaritimeSecurity #MarSec pic.twitter.com/IQEfnbjueZ
— United...
https://www.marinelog.com/legal/safety-and-security/maersk-ship-targeted-by-houthi-missile/
By Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart and Aziz El Yaakoubi WASHINGTON/RIYADH, Nov 26 (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy warship responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker in the Gulf of Aden that had…
https://gcaptain.com/update-tanker-in-middle-east-safe-from-attackers-after-us-navy-responds/
The armed group who seized a vessel off the coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has left the targeted ship, the British navy reported. The post UPDATE: Tanker “safe” after hijack…
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Underscoring the fact that the Gulf of Aden remains a dangerous place, UKMTO (United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations) yesterday reported that a vessel had been attacked in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen’s port of Mukalla, at13° 43N 050° 37.4E
Subsequent reports identified the vessel as the U.K.-flagged 2016-built, 32,798 dwt chemical products tanker Stolt Apal, managed by Stolt Tankers B.V.
The pirates approached the Stolt Apal in two skiffs.
“After multiple warning shots were fired by the armed...