MSC ship suffers near miss in Gulf of Aden after Houthi missile attack

In the second confirmed incident within 24 hours, Yemen’s Houthi militants attacked another commercial vessel in the Gulf of Aden.

Unlike the previous attempt on Wednesday, in which a Houthi missile attacking an AP Moller-Maersk ship was shot down midair by a coalition warship, the projectile fired on Thursday landed close to its intended target, the 6,078-teu MSC Darwin VI (built 1999).