{"id":19125,"date":"2026-05-22T05:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/19125\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T05:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:04:29","slug":"back-where-we-started-cma-cgm-ship-hit-as-hormuz-attacks-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/19125\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Back Where We Started’: CMA CGM Ship Hit as Hormuz Attacks Resume"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA CMA CGM<\/a> container vessel was hit by a projectile in the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> Saturday\u2014one of multiple ships that reported being under fire as tensions in the oil conduit re-escalated over the weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe vessel was the subject of \u201cwarning shots,\u201d the ocean carrier confirmed in a statement. The ship\u2019s crew is safe and unharmed. Although CMA CGM<\/a> did not directly name the vessel, various reports indicate the ship was the ultra-large French-flagged CMA CGM Everglade.<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite indications on Friday morning from President Donald Trump and Iran<\/a>\u2019s top foreign diplomat that the strait was \u201ccompletely open\u201d<\/a> for commercial ships, attacks in the passage resumed over the weekend, with Iran<\/a>\u2019s joint military command saying Saturday the strait has \u201creturned to its previous state.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSince April 13, the U.S. Navy has imposed a naval blockade<\/a> of Iran\u2019s ports and coasts as it attempts to get leaders of the Islamic republic to the negotiating table for a deal that would end the war that began late February.<\/p>\n

\n\tPresident Trump told Bloomberg Monday morning it was \u201chighly unlikely\u201d the U.S. would extend its two-week ceasefire<\/a> with Iran that expires Wednesday, and said the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> would remain blocked until an agreement is finalized.<\/p>\n

\n\tU.S. delegation, including Vice President JD Vance, is currently expected to depart for Pakistan Tuesday to meet with Iranian representatives for a second round of negotiations.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the CMA CGM vessel sustained damage limited to some containers, and the vessel remains operational. No pollution was reported. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) Centre said the incident took place 25 nautical miles northeast of Oman.<\/p>\n

\n\tContainer shipping<\/a> companies have largely avoided the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war due to the ongoing safety threat posed throughout the near-two-month conflict. Since Feb. 28, ship tracking intelligence provider MarineTraffic has recorded 24 separate physical attacks on vessels, including the Everglade incident.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are now back to square one,\u201d said Lars Jensen, CEO of container shipping consultancy Vespucci Maritime, in a LinkedIn update on Sunday. \u201cThe Iranian authorities have clearly stated the Strait of Hormuz is again shut and only a select few vessels will be allowed to transit. And those vessels paying a toll<\/a> will get priority. Or as the Iranians phrase it, they will prioritize those who \u2018pay the costs of security and safety services,\u2019 everyone else will be postponed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe vessel was part of a group of four container vessels CMA CGM attempted to exit from the Persian Gulf in the brief window where transits were allowed.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlong with the Everglade, which can carry roughly 15,300 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs), three other CMA CGM vessels reversed course after the attack. This includes the CMA CGM Manaus, the CMA CGM Galapagos and the CMA CGM Diamond.<\/p>\n

\n\tUnlike many of its major Western ocean carrier competitors that stayed put in the Persian Gulf, CMA CGM had already navigated the Hormuz strait with one of its vessels, the CMA CGM Kribi<\/a>, earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\n\tTwo Indian-flagged ships\u2014the Jag Arnav bulk carrier and Sanmar Herald oil tanker\u2014also reported they were fired upon by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy on Saturday. Both vessels said they endured damage, although no casualties or injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs vessels of all origins remain concerned about safe passage through the strait, the U.S. blockade is also escalating tensions in the wider region.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Sunday, the U.S. Navy attacked and seized the Iranian-flagged ship M\/V Touska in the Arabian Sea near the Strait of Hormuz. The container vessel was steaming toward Bandar Abbas, Iran, after having departed Port Klang in Malaysia on April 12.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ship is owned by the Mosakhar Darya Shipping Co, which has an address in Tehran and is subject to U.S. sanctions.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s tempting to say we are right back where we started, but with the U.S. firing on and boarding the Touska, the risk of escalation against vessels is now at its highest point,\u201d said Destine Ozuygur, a senior market analyst at Xeneta, in a LinkedIn post Monday morning.<\/p>\n

\n\tPorts in the surrounding region have continued to see significant congestion, with the operational disruptions weighing on arrival times.<\/p>\n

\n\tContainer ships are arriving at an on-time rate of just 35 percent over the past two weeks, according to Xeneta. In that time frame, at least one out of every seven vessels have arrived at least a week late.<\/p>\n

\n\tKhor Fakkan Port, which sits on the eastern coast of the U.A.E., has a 62 percent port congestion ratio, the freight benchmarking company said. Xeneta\u2019s congestion ratio calculates the number of ships waiting to call at the port divided by the total number of vessels already docked.<\/p>\n

\n\tSouth Asian ports<\/a>, which have been a popular destination for vessels that have sought alternatives to service loops involving the Persian Gulf, still experience the most severe congestion among their peers.<\/p>\n

\n\tMundra Port has a 61 percent congestion rate as of Monday, while another Indian port, Nhava Sheva Port, and Sri Lanka\u2019s Port of Colombo, both have a 58 percent ratio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A CMA CGM container vessel was hit by a projectile in the Strait of Hormuz Saturday\u2014one of multiple…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13062],"tags":[2213,14111,50,14493,340],"class_list":["post-19125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cma-cgm","tag-cma-cgm","tag-container-shipping","tag-iran","tag-ocean-carriers","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}