{"id":4843,"date":"2026-03-05T11:59:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/4843\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:59:06","slug":"bahamas-flagged-tanker-reports-hull-damage-off-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/4843\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas-flagged tanker reports hull damage off Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Bahamas-flagged crude oil tanker Sonangol Namibe likely suffered a hull breach after a blast while anchored near Iraq\u2019s Khor al Zubair port, according to U.S. representative Sonangol Marine Services. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"748\" data-end=\"928\">The incident occurred early on March 5, when an unknown small vessel approached the port side of the tanker. A short time later, the crew reported hearing a loud explosion, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"930\" data-end=\"1175\">Officials said that a port ballast tank is losing water, indicating a potential hull breach, but the tanker remains stable and safely afloat. The vessel was not carrying cargo at the time, and there have been no reports of pollution.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1177\" data-end=\"1297\">The tanker was en route to load 80,000 metric tons of <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/iran-launched-drones-attack-on-baghdad-airport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iraqi<\/a> fuel under contract with Iraq\u2019s state oil marketer SOMO.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/aysel-mammadzada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Aysel Mammadzada<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bahamas-flagged crude oil tanker Sonangol Namibe likely suffered a hull breach after a blast while anchored near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3390,94,3393,3392,3394,3391],"class_list":{"0":"post-4843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-bahamas","9":"tag-iraq","10":"tag-khor-al-zubair","11":"tag-namibe","12":"tag-somo","13":"tag-sonangol"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116176458025517559","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843","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=4843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}