DUBAI/MUSCAT – An oil tanker collided with a US Navy ship near the Strait of Hormuz Sunday but no one was hurt and shipping traffic in the waterway, through which 40 percent of the world's seaborne oil exports pass, was not affected, officials said. “Both vessels are okay and the Strait of Hormuz is not closed, and business is as usual there,” an Oman coast guard official told Reuters, declining to be named under briefing rules. The US Fifth Fleet said the Panamanian-flagged, Japanese-owned bulk oil tanker M/V Otowasan collided with the USS Porter, a guided-missile destroyer, in the early hours of Sunday morning. The navy vessel remained able to operate under its own power after the collision, which was not combat-related, the statement added without elaborating on how the accident happened. – Reuters
