Hearth on Trafigura-chartered tanker hit by Houthi missile

The U.Ok. Maritime Commerce Workplace (UKMTO) experiences {that a} vessel was struck when 60 nautical miles southeast of Aden and, as of 16.42 UTC was on fireplace.

The vessel is recognized in a number of experiences because the Marshall Islands flagged, U.Ok.-owned tanker Marlin Luanda.

The BBC experiences that the vessel was on constitution to Trafigura and quotes the corporate as saying the strike induced a fireplace in one of many ship’s cargo tanks and that firefighting tools was getting used to include it.

U.S. officers instructed the BBC’s U.S. companion CBS that the tanker was hit by an anti-ship ballistic missile and a naval ship was responding to its misery sign.