{"id":39762,"date":"2019-06-16T12:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T12:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39762"},"modified":"2019-06-16T12:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T12:22:36","slug":"damaged-japanese-tanker-arrives-at-uae-anchorage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39762","title":{"rendered":"Damaged Japanese tanker arrives at UAE anchorage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1511471\/middle-east\" readability=\"52\">\n<p>\nDUBAI: A Japanese tanker, attacked in the Gulf in an incident that sparked a new standoff between Washington and Tehran, \u201carrived safely\u201d Sunday at an anchorage off the UAE, its management said.<br \/>The Kokuka Courageous was carrying highly flammable methanol through the Gulf of Oman on Thursday when it and the Norwegian-operated Front Altair were rocked by explosions.<br \/>The US and Saudi Arabia have accused Iran of responsibility.<br \/>\u201cKokuka Courageous has arrived safely at the designated anchorage at Sharjah,\u201d an emirate neighboring Dubai, the vessel\u2019s Singapore-based BSM Ship Management said in a statement Sunday.<br \/>The crew, who remained on board, were \u201csafe and well,\u201d it said, adding that a damage assessment and preparations for transferring the ship\u2019s cargo would start \u201conce the port authorities have completed their standard security checks and formalities.\u201d<br \/>BSM Ship Management had said earlier Kokuka Courageous was heading toward an anchorage on the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates, facing the Gulf of Oman.<br \/>The other ship, the Front Altair, has left Iran\u2019s territorial waters, multiple sources said Saturday.<br \/>It was \u201cheading toward the Fujairah-Khor Fakkan area in the United Arab Emirates,\u201d the ports chief of Iran\u2019s southern province of Hormozgan told the semi-official news agency ISNA.<br \/>A spokeswoman for Frontline Management, the Norwegian company which owns the ship, said \u201call 23 crew members of the tanker departed Iran\u201d and flew to Dubai on Saturday.<br \/>The US military on Friday released grainy footage it said showed an Iranian patrol boat removing an \u201cunexploded limpet mine\u201d from the Japanese vessel.<br \/>Tehran has vehemently denied any involvement.<br \/>Iran has repeatedly warned in the past that it could block the strategic Hormuz Strait in a relatively low-tech, high-impact countermeasure to any attack by the United States.<br \/>Doing so would disrupt oil tankers traveling out of the Gulf region to the Indian Ocean and global export routes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: A Japanese tanker, attacked in the Gulf in an incident that sparked a new standoff between Washington and Tehran, \u201carrived safely\u201d Sunday at an anchorage off the UAE, its management said.The Kokuka Courageous was carrying highly flammable methanol through the Gulf of Oman on Thursday when it and the Norwegian-operated Front Altair were rocked&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}