Today, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) has made I have received a report of an accident that occurred yesterday at 30 nautical miles southeast from Mubarak Al Kabeer, Kuwait, with the commander of a tanker at anchor who announced that he had seen and heard a loud explosion on the left side of the ship which was followed by the removal of a small boat. In addition, the commander communicated that there were no fires occurred and the crew did not suffer damage, but the tanker took on water and hydrocarbons from a tanker spilled at sea. Kuwait's Ministry of Interior has denied some first reports that the accident would have occurred within Kuwaiti territorial waters, while it happened - he specified the ministry in a note - at least 60 kilometers from the port of Mubarak Al-Kabeer.

Yesterday, moreover, there was another direct accident as a result of the state of belligerence following the attack of the and Israel to Iran. The UKMTO has announced that the container ship Safeen Prestige of the company Safeen Feeders of the Emirati AD Ports, two nautical miles north of Oman, in eastward transit in the Strait of Hormuz, was hit by a bullet just above the waterline that has caused a fire in the ship's engine room which abandoned by the crew.