A ship owned by Mediterranean Shipping Company, the Sariska V, was struck by two projectiles in an Iraqi port, the Geneva-based company said.

The New York Times reports that the 4,830 TEU containership was hit as it left the Port of Umm Qasr in Iraq on June 1. According to MSC, the first missile hit while the pilot was onboard as the vessel departed from port and a second impacted the crew area soon afterwards. All crew members were safe and unharmed, the world’s largest container carrier said on June 2.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it acted in response to U.S. strikes on an Iranian vessel, the Lian Star, in the Gulf of Oman, according to Tasnim, a semiofficial news outlet affiliated with the Guards. The Revolutionary Guards reportedly said in a statement that the vessel was owned by the “American-Zionist enemy.”

The statement further warned that any act of aggression by the U.S. military in the region would be met with a “decisive response.”

“This retaliatory action is completely unjustified based on the allegations made by the IRGC, since MSC is a neutral commercial carrier with no affiliation to the United States or Israel,” MSC said in a June 2 statement. “Founded by Italian national Captain Gianluigi Aponte, the company is headquartered and domiciled in Switzerland and is wholly owned by his children, Diego and Alexa Aponte, both Italian nationals with no other citizenship.
 
“MSC is deeply concerned by these unprovoked attacks and the risk they create for its innocent seafarers, and essential maritime trade in the region,” the statement continued.