{"id":16099,"date":"2026-03-12T14:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/16099\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:53:07","slug":"hapag-lloyd-container-ship-hit-by-shrapnel-near-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/16099\/","title":{"rendered":"Hapag-Lloyd container ship hit by shrapnel near Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Hapag-Lloyd container ship was hit by shrapnel west of the Strait of Hormuz, Germany&#8217;s largest container shipping company said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The hit caused a fire to break out on the subleased Source Blessing, a spokesman for the Hamburg-based firm told dpa upon request, confirming media reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The crew on board is safe and sound, was able to extinguish the fire and quickly bring the situation under control,&#8221; he said, without disclosing the location of the vessel, citing security reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) Centre reported a ship was hit by an &#8220;unknown projectile&#8221; north of Dubai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">International shipping in the Gulf region has repeatedly been targeted by Iranian strikes since the United States and Israel began attacking the country on February 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several ships have been hit by projectiles in and near the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway between Iran and Oman, as Iran vowed to block oil shipments to the United States, Israel and their allies in a bid to increase the costs of the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Liberia-flagged Source of Blessing was built in 2003 and measures 240 metres in length, according to tracking service VesselFinder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It can reportedly carry around 3,200 standard containers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Hapag-Lloyd container ship was hit by shrapnel west of the Strait of Hormuz, Germany&#8217;s largest container shipping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2806,1713,102,34,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-16099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-container-ship","9":"tag-hapag-lloyd","10":"tag-hormuz","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-strait-of-hormuz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116216778168877298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}