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🚨 🇮🇷 Another ship is hit in the Gulf, with a projectile strike causing a fire south of Iran's Lavan Island
🚨 🇮🇷 Another ship is hit in the Gulf, with a projectile strike causing a fire south of Iran's Lavan Island
- 🇮🇷 The UK maritime security agency said a vessel was hit on its port side by an unknown projectile about 40 nautical miles south of Iran's Lavan Island in the central Gulf, causing a fire on board. The crew is safe, no environmental impact is reported, and an investigation is under way; no one has claimed the attack (newswires, )
- 🇮🇷 It is the second attack on shipping today, after limpet mines disabled a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz earlier in the day (alerted at )
FO view: Attacks are now spreading from Hormuz itself into the wider Gulf, which keeps the war-risk premium in Brent firmly in place going into the weekend, when markets are shut and more incidents can build up.
Not investment advice.