{"id":1118519,"date":"2026-07-29T17:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1118519\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T17:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:58:19","slug":"explosions-reported-at-egypts-damietta-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1118519\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosions reported at Egypt&#8217;s Damietta Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A drone has hit a US-owned gas storage tanker at Egypt&#8217;s Mediterranean port of Damietta, maritime security firm Ambrey said on Wednesday, citing an initial assessment of the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Port services firm Inchcape said in a separate message that two gas tankers had caught fire at Damietta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The drone hit floating storage tanker Energos Winter, causing a fire that then spread to another vessel, Gaslog Salem, three trading sources familiar with the incident said. Two separate security sources said the cause of the blast was a drone strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The crew was evacuated, and the fire had been brought under control, Ambrey said, adding that no party had claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Egyptian authorities launched an investigation into the circumstances of the incident but have not defined the incident as an attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Egypt\u2019s Petroleum Ministry disputed the reports of a drone strike, stating that the the fire broke out on a regasification vessel and a storage vessel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Petroleum Ministry added that no fatalities or injuries resulted from the incident and that emergency teams are on scene assessing the circumstances of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drone has hit a US-owned gas storage tanker at Egypt&#8217;s Mediterranean port of Damietta, maritime security firm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1118520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[321,1865,5436,12,7697,26],"class_list":["post-1118519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-egypt","tag-explosion","tag-natural-gas","tag-news","tag-ports","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1118520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}