The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations centre said Saturday that a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz caught fire after being hit by an unknown projectile. [1] The fire was put out. There was no reported environmental impact. Iran offered no immediate comment.

That is the completed hull record, not a reopen. The paper's Saturday lead recorded that Iran priced a Hormuz deal on Washington, not Muscat. UKMTO's Saturday line sits under the same Reuters file that also carried an Emirati claim of a missile against an ADNOC-affiliated carrier. [1]

A close Oman talk does not put a fire out. A put-out fire does not reopen a lane. The Saturday instrument is a projectile, a dead blaze, and a blank from Tehran.

The same Reuters Saturday file that carried UKMTO also recorded an Emirati claim that Iran had struck an ADNOC-affiliated carrier with a missile and that no injuries were reported. [1] UKMTO named neither hull nor flag. It named a projectile, a fire, and a fire that went out. Owners who want a casualty report will not find one here. Saturday's economic fact is a closed blaze and an empty comment line from Tehran.

A projectile without a named ship is still a Saturday insurance fact. [1]

-- HENDRIK VAN DER BERG, Brussels