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A Palauan-flagged, Ukrainian-owned bulk cargo carrier en route to Italy, the Verbena, was also seriously damaged when it was struck by two anti-ship cruise missiles fired from Houthi-controlled Yemen while sailing in the Gulf of Aden last Thursday.

In that case, the police said, the cocaine was dropped overboard from a bulk cargo carrier and then collected out of the ocean and brought ashore.

The most immediate concern of fleet operators: so-called drayage trucks that typically run shipping containers or bulk cargo back and forth from ports to rail yards and distribution centers, racking up a few dozen miles a day or so.

At 9:15 a.m. local time, according to U.S. military accounts, the Carney was patrolling in the Red Sea when it detected an anti-ship ballistic missile attack toward the M/V Unity Explorer, a bulk cargo ship owned and operated by a British company but registered in the Bahamas.

Sunday, the Carney was on patrol in the Red Sea when it detected an anti-ship ballistic missile attack toward the M/V Unity Explorer, a bulk cargo ship owned and operated by a British company and registered in the Bahamas.