<p>Dubai: Crews extinguished a fire on board the tanker Marlin Luanda on Saturday after the vessel was struck by a Houthi anti-ship missile in the Gulf of Aden on Friday, commodities trader Trafigura said.</p><p>"All crew on board the Marlin Luanda are safe and the fire in the cargo tank has been fully extinguished. The vessel is now sailing towards a safe harbour," Trafigura said in a statement, adding that the firefighting effort had been supported by Indian, US and French navy vessels.</p><p>The US military said earlier that a US Navy ship and other vessels were providing assistance after the Marlin Luanda was hit by a Houthi anti-ship missile.</p>.INS Visakhapatnam assists British oil tanker on fire in Gulf of Aden amid Houthi attack.<p>Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi militants have launched waves of exploding drones and missiles at vessels since November 19, in response to Israel's military operations in Gaza.</p><p>Some shipping companies have suspended transits through the Red Sea and taken much longer, costlier journeys around Africa.</p><p>The Houthi attacks have primarily targeted container vessels moving through the Red Sea. Many oil tankers have kept using the route.</p><p>The Marshall Islands-flagged Marlin Luanda issued a distress call on Friday and reported damage, US Central Command said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. The USS Carney and other coalition ships were providing assistance to the tanker, it said.</p><p>The tanker was carrying Russian naphtha purchased below the price cap in line with G7 sanctions, a Trafigura spokesperson said on Friday.</p><p>US and British warplanes, ships and submarines have responded to the Houthi attacks on shipping in recent weeks with dozens of retaliatory airstrikes across Yemen against Houthi forces.</p><p>About eight hours after the incident involving the Marlin Luanda, the US military destroyed a Houthi anti-ship missile that was aimed into the Red Sea and ready to launch, Central Command said.</p><p>The missile "presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and the US Navy ships in the region," it said.</p><p>The Houthis' Al-Masira television said on Saturday that the United States and Britain launched two airstrikes that targeted the port of Ras Issa, Yemen's main oil export terminal.</p><p>It was not clear if this was the strike referred to by Central Command, and the US Fifth Fleet did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</p><p>The British Defence Ministry declined to comment. </p>
<p>Dubai: Crews extinguished a fire on board the tanker Marlin Luanda on Saturday after the vessel was struck by a Houthi anti-ship missile in the Gulf of Aden on Friday, commodities trader Trafigura said.</p><p>"All crew on board the Marlin Luanda are safe and the fire in the cargo tank has been fully extinguished. The vessel is now sailing towards a safe harbour," Trafigura said in a statement, adding that the firefighting effort had been supported by Indian, US and French navy vessels.</p><p>The US military said earlier that a US Navy ship and other vessels were providing assistance after the Marlin Luanda was hit by a Houthi anti-ship missile.</p>.INS Visakhapatnam assists British oil tanker on fire in Gulf of Aden amid Houthi attack.<p>Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi militants have launched waves of exploding drones and missiles at vessels since November 19, in response to Israel's military operations in Gaza.</p><p>Some shipping companies have suspended transits through the Red Sea and taken much longer, costlier journeys around Africa.</p><p>The Houthi attacks have primarily targeted container vessels moving through the Red Sea. Many oil tankers have kept using the route.</p><p>The Marshall Islands-flagged Marlin Luanda issued a distress call on Friday and reported damage, US Central Command said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. The USS Carney and other coalition ships were providing assistance to the tanker, it said.</p><p>The tanker was carrying Russian naphtha purchased below the price cap in line with G7 sanctions, a Trafigura spokesperson said on Friday.</p><p>US and British warplanes, ships and submarines have responded to the Houthi attacks on shipping in recent weeks with dozens of retaliatory airstrikes across Yemen against Houthi forces.</p><p>About eight hours after the incident involving the Marlin Luanda, the US military destroyed a Houthi anti-ship missile that was aimed into the Red Sea and ready to launch, Central Command said.</p><p>The missile "presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and the US Navy ships in the region," it said.</p><p>The Houthis' Al-Masira television said on Saturday that the United States and Britain launched two airstrikes that targeted the port of Ras Issa, Yemen's main oil export terminal.</p><p>It was not clear if this was the strike referred to by Central Command, and the US Fifth Fleet did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</p><p>The British Defence Ministry declined to comment. </p>