“The vessel and crew are safe and are continuing their route to the port which is their next destination,” he added in an emergency briefing note, clarifying that this “incident” unfolded in the sea area 76 nautical miles northwest of the port city of Hodaida of Yemen in the Red Sea.
A merchant ship moving in the Red Sea was hit by an “unknown object” and suffered “minor damage”, Britain’s maritime safety body UKMTO said in the early hours of the morning, citing new information received.
“The vessel and crew are safe and are continuing their route to the port which is their next destination,” he added in an emergency briefing note, clarifying that this “incident” unfolded in the sea area 76 nautical miles northwest of the port city of Hodaida of Yemen in the Red Sea.
He did not give further details about the strike, particularly which ship it was.
The rebel movement Ansar Allah (“supporters of God”), better known by the family name of its leaders, the Houthis, which has seized most of northern Yemen and is seen as close to Iran, has been launching attacks since November against merchant ships that therefore, they are “joining” with Israel, in a sign of “solidarity” with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where the war between Israel and Hamas has been raging for the eighth month, which is intensifying the concern about the possibility of the war spreading to the region.
Houthi drone and missile attacks have forced major shipping companies to halt shipping through the Red Sea to the Suez Canal, a strategic waterway through which 12% to 15% of world trade passed before the war . Most ships now go around Africa, which makes shipping by sea much more time-consuming and expensive.
Source :Skai
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