A Costamare-owned vessel in the fleet of AP Moller-Maersk has sailed on a route to Dubai after no signs emerged that the Houthis targeted the vessel as they claimed.
As TradeWinds reported on Friday, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree announced that the Yemeni militant group launched an operation targeting the 4,957-teu Megalopolis (built 2013).
Saree said on X that the operation involved a number of drones while the vessel was in the Arabian Sea off Oman.
Tracking data from VesselsValue shows the ship reached the Omani port of Salalah early on Saturday.
On Monday, the Megalopolis was east of Oman headed to the Gulf port of Jebel Ali in Dubai.
A source with knowledge of the situation said there was no incident, and the Royal Navy’s UK Maritime Trade Operations said it had issued no security alerts during the time of the reported Houthi operation.
A Costamare executive reached by TradeWinds over the weekend declined to comment, and several members of the Maersk press team have not responded to a TradeWinds request for comment.
The Houthis have been assaulting ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden for about a year, although in several instances their claims of operations further afield have proved unfounded.
The Malta-flagged Megalopolis — one of 68 owned container ships in the fleet of New York-listed Costamare — is on charter to Maersk.
It has insurance from the Swedish Club and is classed by DNV.
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