{"id":526,"date":"2026-08-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/ukmto-warning-121-26-tanker-al-salam-ii-hit-near-khasab-hormuz\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T05:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:25:09","slug":"ukmto-warning-121-26-tanker-al-salam-ii-hit-near-khasab-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/ukmto-warning-121-26-tanker-al-salam-ii-hit-near-khasab-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"UKMTO Warning 121-26: Tanker Al Salam II Hit Near Khasab in Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <strong>27 August 2026<\/strong>, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) issued <strong>Warning 121-26<\/strong> after local authorities reported that a tanker had been hit by an unknown projectile near <strong>Khasab, Oman<\/strong>, while transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The Joint Maritime Information Center (JMIC) identified the vessel as the Kuwaiti tanker <strong>Al Salam II<\/strong>, struck at about <strong>1730 UTC on 25 August<\/strong> during an eastbound transit.<\/p>\n<p>The projectile hit just above the waterline, opening a small hole and starting a fire that the crew extinguished. All seafarers were reported safe, with no reported pollution. Tug assistance was expected, and the tanker later anchored about <strong>0.8 nm northwest of Jazirat Tawakkul<\/strong>. The warning landed as operators weighed corridor diplomacy against continued projectile risk on the southern Hormuz approaches.<\/p>\n<h2>What Operators Should Note<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Treat southern Hormuz near Khasab as high kinetic risk<\/strong> even when diplomatic corridor talks advance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maintain fire and hull-breach drills<\/strong> for above-waterline projectile strikes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Report suspicious activity promptly to UKMTO<\/strong> and keep BMP\/passage plans current.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Confirm tug and emergency response options<\/strong> before committing to eastbound TSS legs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Regulas Shipping will continue tracking UKMTO\/JMIC warnings and crew-safety outcomes for Hormuz transits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UKMTO Warning 121-26 confirmed that Kuwaiti tanker Al Salam II was struck by an unknown projectile near Khasab, Oman, on 25 August \u2014 fire extinguished, crew safe, tug assistance expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights","category-maritime-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regulasshipping.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}