Kuwaiti VLCC Al-Salmi Hit While at Anchorage 錨地停泊中のクウェートVLCC「アル・サルミ」が被弾

Heightened concerns over attacks on waiting vessels, with further upside risk to VLCC rates

待機船への攻撃に警戒感、VLCC市況さらに上振れも

The risk to merchant shipping in Middle Eastern waters has expanded beyond vessels “under way” in the Strait of Hormuz to include VLCCs “at anchor”. The Kuwaiti-flagged very large crude carrier (VLCC) Al-Salmi was attacked in the early hours of March 31 while at anchorage off Dubai in the UAE, resulting in hull damage and a fire on board.

■The full article covers the following points (approximately 3,000 words in total)

→Why this incident is being interpreted not as a risk to vessels “in transit” but as an expansion of risk to those “at waiting positions”

→What kind of vessel Al-Salmi is, and what role it had been playing among VLCCs in the Middle East

→How this attack could influence the market at a time when VLCC freight rates are already at historically elevated levels

→What new dimensions of risk management this may impose on shipowners, charterers and insurers in practical terms

→How a situation in which “simply being in the Gulf is dangerous” could reshape conventional assumptions around fleet deployment and crude oil transportation going forward

(Please refer to the full text, available in both English and Japanese. The Japanese article follows the English version.)

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錨地停泊中のクウェートVLCC「アル・サルミ」が被弾

待機船への攻撃に警戒感、VLCC市況さらに上振れも

　中東海域の商船リスクが、ホルムズ海峡を「航行中の」船舶だけでなく「錨地停泊中」のVLCCにまで被害が拡大した。クウェート船籍の超大型原油タンカー（VLCC）「Al-Salmi（アル・サルミ）」が3月31日未明、UAE・ドバイ沖の錨地で攻撃を受け、船体損傷と船内火災が発生した。

■記事本文では以下の内容を読むことができます（記事全文約3000文字）

→なぜ今回の事案が「航行中の危険」ではなく「待機中の危険」の拡大として受け止められているのか

→被弾した「Al-Salmi」がどのような船で、中東のVLCCの中でどんな役割を担っていたのか

→VLCC運賃がすでに歴史的高水準にある中で、今回の攻撃が市況にどう影響し得るのか

→船主・用船者・保険者の実務にどのような新たなリスク管理を迫る可能性があるのか

→「湾岸にいるだけで危ない」という状況が、今後の配船や原油輸送の常識をどう変えうるのか

（続きは英語と日本語で書かれた本文でお読みください。日本語の記事は英文記事に続いて掲載されています）

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