Most Read from BloombergSecurity consultancies Vanguard Tech and Marisks identified the ship as the Gaslog Shanghai LNG tanker. The UK Maritime Trade Operations had alerted that a vessel was struck in the strait off the Omani coast overnight, without identifying it. It appears that the ship wasn't sending a signal when it was struck in Hormuz. In early July, a Qatari LNG tanker was hit near Hormuz, forcing the world's second largest exporter of the fuel to pause shipments through the waterway for three weeks. Earlier this week, another Gaslog LNG carrier was hit while in a northern Egyptian port.