The Hormuz incident log recorded its first attacks in eleven days on the night of 31 July, and GasLog broke a silence running back to 2024 to post statements on two of its ships

Two entries now sit above warning 098-26.

Until the night of 31 July, the newest item on the incident list kept by United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations was an advisory dated 27 July, describing a master who heard an explosion while transiting the southern Red Sea. This site read that list on 30 July, counted 22 reports, and wrote that an empty log is not the same thing as an empty sea. Read again on Sunday morning, it states 24.

Both of the new entries are classed as attacks.

Warning 102-26 gives an incident time of 2206 UTC on 31 July and a position 21 nautical miles northeast of Khasab, Oman. The master of a tanker reported seeing a large splash and an explosion close to the ship, and no damage. Warning 101-26 carries a report time of 2330 UTC the same night, an issue date of 1 August, and a company security officer as its source: a tanker 11 nautical miles northeast off Lima, Oman, struck by an unknown projectile, damage to the engine room, the vessel not under command, the regional coast guard informed. Neither report describes casualties or pollution.

The earlier incident carries the later number.

Before these two, the last attack logged anywhere was warning 095-26 on 22 July, off Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea. The last one logged in the Hormuz approaches was 094-26 on 20 July, 8 nautical miles northeast of Limah, the same Omani village that 101-26 spells Lima. That is a gap of eleven days.

The operator posted twice on one day

On 1 August GasLog Ltd published two statements. One says an incident occurred on 31 July on the LNG carrier GasLog Shanghai while the vessel was exiting the Strait of Hormuz, that everyone onboard "is safe and accounted for," and that the vessel "is stable." The other says an incident occurred on 29 July on board the GasLog Salem while that ship was alongside at Damietta, in Egypt, that "all crew members are safe," and that there were no injuries and no pollution.

Neither statement says what happened. Neither uses the word attack. Both record that the company activated its emergency procedures and notified the authorities, and the Salem statement adds that the cause is being investigated. The item below them on that news page is dated 21 October 2024.

Reported by Mike Schuler at gCaptain, the Shanghai is a 155,000 cubic metre carrier built in 2013 and on bareboat charter to GasLog. That account covers the Shanghai and both UKMTO warnings, and states that whether the Shanghai incident is connected to either of them was not immediately clear. It does not mention the Salem.

Nothing here closes that gap. GasLog puts the Shanghai in the Strait of Hormuz on 31 July, and UKMTO puts two tankers off northern Oman the same night, which is an agreement about place and date rather than an identification. UKMTO names no vessel in either warning, as it never does.

Two things the record does not explain

The numbering runs unbroken from 077-26 on 1 July to 098-26 on 27 July, and then goes to 101 and 102. No entry numbered 099-26 or 100-26 appears, and the page gives no reason.

The second is the question this site set on 30 July, and it stays open. The test then was whether reports would resume before traffic returned to the strait or after, because the first would say something about intent and the second only about how few ships were there to file one. Settling it needs a current count of transits, and this desk did not obtain one today from a source it could cite.