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 yobuchwepheshe yezinto zasolwandle, ekuqaleni yakhuluma ngomunye wemikhumbi ebandakanyekile njenge-MT Front Altair, i-Marshall Islands-enethange likawoyela ongahluziwe. Umkhumbi “wawuvutha futhi uzihambela," kwanezela i-Dryad. Ayizange ichaze imbangela yalesi sigameko noma ikhulume ngomkhumbi wesibili. 