{"id":3031,"date":"2026-07-29T17:07:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpc.ge\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2026-07-29T17:07:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:07:42","slug":"drone-hits-gas-storage-tanker-at-egypts-mediterranean-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/drone-hits-gas-storage-tanker-at-egypts-mediterranean-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone hits gas storage tanker at Egypt&#8217;s Mediterranean port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A drone has hit a \u200bU.S.-owned gas storage tanker at \u200cEgypt&#8217;s Mediterranean port of Damietta, maritime security firm Ambrey \u200bsaid on Wednesday, \u200bciting an initial assessment of \u2060the incident, Reuters reports.<\/p>\n<p>Port services firm \u200bInchcape said in a separate \u200bmessage two gas tankers had caught fire at Damietta.<\/p>\n<p>The drone \u200bhit floating storage tanker \u200bEnergos Winter, causing a fire that then spread to another vessel, Gaslog \u200cSalem, \u2060three trading sources familiar with the incident said. Two separate security sources \u200bsaid the \u200bcause \u2060of the blast was a drone strike.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bcrew were evacuated and the \u200bfire had \u2060been brought under control, Ambrey said, adding that no party \u2060had \u200bclaimed responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drone has hit a \u200bU.S.-owned gas storage tanker at \u200cEgypt&#8217;s Mediterranean port of Damietta, maritime security firm Ambrey \u200bsaid on Wednesday, \u200bciting an initial assessment of \u2060the incident, Reuters reports. Port services firm \u200bInchcape said in a separate \u200bmessage two gas tankers had caught fire at Damietta. The drone \u200bhit floating storage tanker \u200bEnergos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3032,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions\/3032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}