Report: Tanker Suffers Explosion Off Saudi Port of Jeddah
A vessel has actually experienced a surge at the primary anchorage of the port of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, according to maritime safety working as a consultantDryad Global
The record has actually not been validated as well as the identification of the vessel is vague. It might be either the UAE-owned 100,000 dwt crude vessel Desert Rose, or the Saudi- flagged bunkering vessel Al Amal Al Saudi, possessed by Saudi Arabia’s National Bunkering Company, according toDryad Global Both vessels were still at support off Jeddah as well as broadcasting AIS on Sunday night, according to tracking offered by Pole Star.
The root cause of the blast is not yet recognized, however Dryad Global recommended that it might have been a limpet mine assault.
“If indeed the vessel has been targeted by an explosive device it remains a realistic possibility that the vessel was targeted via the presence of limpet mines, similar to that seen deployed by Iranian forces within the Gulf of Oman in 2019,” Dryad Global evaluated.
Several assaults have actually taken place along Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coastline in current months, however none as much north as Sunday’s event. On November 23, the seller vessel Agrari was struck by an eruptive tool at the port of Al Shuqaiq; the event has actually been extensively credited to a drifting mine or waterborne IED, most likely released by Houthi rebel pressures inYemen Saudi pressures apparently prevented a tried eruptive tool assault at the port of Jizan on November 13, as well as a Maltese- flagged vessel is thought to have actually been struck by a drifting mine at the Rudum oil terminal on Yemen’s southerly coast on October 3.
