An unidentified drone struck two gas vessels at Egypt's Damietta Mediterranean port on July 29, 2026, triggering fires. Egyptian investigators confirmed the drone strike and reported no casualties, though captains later described fears the vessels could have exploded catastrophically.
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By Jonathan Saul, Marwa Rashad and Mohamed Ezz LONDON/CAIRO, July 29 (Reuters) - A drone caused the fire that engulfed two gas vessels at Egypt's Mediterranean port of Damietta, the Egyptian cabinet said on Thursday, confirming for the first time that the blaze which erupted a day earlier was the result of an attack rather than an accident. No party has claimed responsibility, and authorities were
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By Nafisa Eltahir, Elwely Elwelly and Tala Ramadan DUBAI, July 30 (Reuters) - A drone strike on gas vessels in Egypt's Mediterranean port of Damietta signalled a potential new front in the U.S.-Iran war, raising the prospect of threats to navigation through the Suez Canal, a last remaining safe export route for Saudi oil. The Egyptian cabinet said on Thursday that an initial investigation showed t
Egypt’s cabinet said preliminary investigations found that a drone caused a July 29 fire involving two gas vessels at Damietta Port on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, and said no party had claimed responsibility for the incident [dailynewsegypt.com#1][aawsat.com#1][reuters.com#1][urdupoint.com#1]. The Petroleum Ministry said the blaze involved a regasification vessel and a storage vessel and caused n
Egypt confirms drone caused fire on two gas vessels at Damietta Reuters
Egypt said preliminary investigations found that an unidentified drone caused a July 29 fire on two gas vessels at Damietta, a Mediterranean port near the Suez Canal, and that no party had claimed responsibility [ndtv.com#1][reuters.com#1][bbc.co.uk#1][dailynewsegypt.com#1][thepeninsulaqatar.com#1]. The drone hit the U.S.-owned floating storage and regasification vessel Energos Winter, with fire s
Marine officers who battled fires aboard two gas vessels struck in a drone attack on Egypt's port of Damietta feared the ships were "a bomb waiting to explode" that could have destroyed the entire port and ripped through the city beyond. The US-owned Energos Winter floating storage and regasification unit and the Greek-owned LNG tanker GasLog Salem -- which were moored side by side at the Mediterr