The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said Thursday that it had reclassified a tanker report in the Strait of Hormuz as an attack after determining an unidentified projectile struck the vessel.
The agency’s first notice on Nov. 11 did not establish whether the crew were safe, whether the vessel was damaged or whether there were environmental effects. UKMTO’s update said the crew were safe but provided no damage assessment, gave no precise location within the strait and did not identify the tanker, its flag or owner. It also did not say where the projectile came from.
EconoTimes previously covered UKMTO’s initial tanker alert.
The Strait of Hormuz links the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimated average oil flows through the waterway at 21.2 million barrels per day in 2025, including crude oil, condensate and petroleum products. EIA has said existing pipelines could not divert all those flows if shipping through the strait stopped.
