Mediterranean container ship MSC Tavvishi Shipping Company employed in the Petra liner service connecting the port of Singapore with Salalah and Djibouti was hit Saturday by an anti-ship ballistic missile launched from an area of the Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels. This was announced by US Central Command specifying that the ship suffered damage but continued the own trip. The United Kingdom Maritime Trde Operations (UKMTO) of the British Royal Navy specified that the missile hit the aft part of the container carrier at about 70 nautical miles south-west of Aden, causing a fire which, however, did not prevented the ship from proceeding to the next port of call. Centcom also reported that a second missile was was shot down by the coalition naval forces present in the area.

Referring to the attacks on ships carried out for this purpose Yahya Sare'e, spokesman for the militants Yemeni Houthi, said two ships violated the ban entry into the ports of occupied Palestine. Sare'e ha specified that a fire would also break out on the Norderney, ship of the German Reederei M. Lauterjung operated by his company by ship management Sunship Schiffahrtskontor.