The US carrier collides by ship in the Mediterranean

The airline USS Harry S. Truman collided with a large grocery ship on Wednesday night near Port Said, Egypt, in the Mediterranean.

“Nimitz-Class Airline Company USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) was involved in a collision with the commercial vessel Besiktas-M at 23.46 local time, February 12, while operating near Port Said, said: Egypt, in The Mediterranean, “said a statement from the US Navy’s sixth fleet.

The collision involved a rare collision of two major vessels when the 100,000 ton cary company collided with the 53,000 ton of commercial vessel Besiktas-M, a Panaman-flagged cargo ship.

There are no reports of injuries, nor are there flooded, aboard the carrier, carrying a crew of 5,000 sailors and the incident is under investigation.

Truman is powered by two nuclear reactors and four propulsion systems, and the declaration of the sixth fleet said the ship’s propulsion system was not affected and said to be in “a safe and stable state.”

The airline and its strike group had been operating in the Red Sea since mid-December as part of the mission to counteract Houthi-militant attacks launched from Yemen by commercial vessels transiting the vital waterway.

The carrier had arrived at a naval base in Crete earlier this week, a rare break for the strike group, which has had constant operations, although the pace had ebbed when Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas came into force in mid -January.

The Houthis have claimed that their attacks on shipment were carried out in support of Hamas.