Additional attacks were conducted this weekend ships transiting the southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. On Friday evening, the tanker Aframax LR2 Marlin Luanda was hit by an anti-ship ballistic missile that U.S. Central Command announced - was launched by an area of Yemen controlled by the Houthis. On the ship, operated Suntech Ship Management on behalf of the Trafigura Group of Singapore active in commodity trading, burst a fire. Trafigura reported that the flames broke out in a cistern and were turned off. The tanker crew, trained 22 seafarers of Indian nationality and one Bangladeshi, remained unharmed. Marlin Luanda has been loaned assistance to the military ships USS Carney, Alsace and INS Visakhapatnam of USA, France and India. The Aframax, the flagship of the Marshall Islands and 110,000 deadweight tonnes, is was leased to Trafigura through the British Oceonix Services and is owned by a fund managed by JP Morgan.

A new incident occurred on Saturday, probably attributable to an act of piracy. The United Kingdom Maritime The British Royal Navy's Trade Operations has announced that, in an area of the Arabian Sea 780 nautical miles east of Hafun, in Somalia, a ship was approached by a small boat with four armed people on board and equipped with a rocket launcher, which came within 300 meters of the ship. The team of security on board the latter fired warning shots and, after an exchange of gunfire, the boat Wandered off. The ship and its crew were damaged.

Also on Saturday, U.S. forces destroyed a anti-ship missile in an area of Yemen controlled by the Houthis - according to the US Central Command - was about to be launched and posed a threat to merchant ships and of the U.S. Navy present in the Red Sea region.

On Saturday, the British guided-missile destroyer HMS Diamond, with the use of the Sea anti-missile system Viper, shot down a drone directed at the ship that - specified the Royal Navy - it had been launched by the Houthis.

Yesterday - the British UKMTO announced - a ship, about 70 miles northwest of Boosaaso, Somalia, said have been approached up to 400 meters by a small boat with five people on board, four of whom were armed with AK47 rifles. The security team on board the ship fired two warning shots and the boat moved away.

Tomorrow evening at 6.00 p.m. in Trieste, meanwhile, there will be a meeting organized by the Propeller Club Port of Trieste to analyse the effects on the international and local economy resulting from the ongoing crisis in the Red Sea and the application of the shipping sector of the EU ETS emissions of the European Union, in order to assess, in particular, the economic and employment effects on the territory of the ports of Trieste and Monfalcone. On the subject, they will inform and express the speakers of the meeting, who will be Sergio Bologna (President of the Maritime Operators Business Agency - AIOM), Danilo Stevanato (AIOM technical advisor), Alberto Rossi (Secretary General of Assarmatori), Paolo Ferrandino (Secretary of the and Patrizia Scarchilli (Director of the Directorate for the supervision of Port System Authorities, the Ministry's maritime and inland waterway transport Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport) which will be connected in video conference.