Seatrade-Maritime: Maersk chartered ship hit north of Jebel AIi

The box ship was struck “by an unknown projectile” around 35 miles north of Jebel Ali, all crew are safe according to UKMTO reports from the master. Maritime security firm Vanguard reported that the vessel involved was the Source Blessing and struck at 2:20am local time.

The registered owned of the 3,240 teu Source Blessing is Well Wonder 1 Ltd in Fujian according to Equasis. The container ship is charter to Hapag-Lloyd which has sublet the vessel to its alliance partner Maersk. The Source Blessing is deployed on Maersk’s M04 shuttle service in the Gulf.

A small fire was reported on board, but a damage assessment was unable to be completed in the dark. The vessel is at anchor in the north western part of the Gulf but was heading for the Omani port of Sohar before the war began.

The 2003 built, Liberian flagged, vessel was built in Taiwan and operated by Lykes Lines as the Lykes Flyer and more recently as Washington Express by Hapag-Lloyd.