Shipping disruption

Port or tanker

Unidentified container ship — UKMTO warning 170

13 October 2026 · UKMTO listing date

Strait of Hormuz (regional reference)

26.5000, 56.4000

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What happened

UKMTO’s listing dated 13 October reports that a verified source described a container ship struck by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz. The summary does not identify the ship, casualties, damage or attacker. The date is the listing date; the precise incident time remains unverified. Warning 170 is tracked separately from warning 167 without assuming identities. This is a regional reference, not an impact coordinate. No actual-vessel image can be verified without its identity.

When cited sources give different casualty, damage or spill figures for this event, they’re reported side by side above rather than merged into one number. See how confidence levels work.

Evidence
Reported / attributed
Confidence
Moderate
Infrastructure
Port or tanker
Weather context
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Latitude
26.5000°
Longitude
56.4000°

Attribution

Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.

Sources

  1. Unidentified container ship — UKMTO warning 170UKMTO · Incident reporting