Dryad Global, a maritime intelligence firm, preliminarily identified one of the vessels involved as the MT Front Altair, a Marshall Islands-flagged crude oil tanker. The vessel was "on fire and adrift," Dryad added. It did not offer a cause for the incident or mention the second ship.
I-Dryad Global, inkampani yobuchule yasolwandle, ekuqaleni iphawule omunye wemikhumbi obandakanyekayo njenge-MT Front Altair, nokuwumkhumbi ophawulwe njengowaseMarshall-Islands olayisha uwoyela ongahluziwe," kunezela u-Dryad.