Beirut: The oil market has reacted Thursday with increases in the price of a barrel, after the attacks against two ships in the Gulf of Oman, a route through which 30 percent of the world's crude oil passes, Prensa Latina publishes.

One of the ships was on fire and adrift, according to the shipping companies, and as a result concerns influenced a barrel price increase of up to four percent of Middle East supplies.

The Altair Front, one of the ships, was transporting petrochemical raw materials, burned in waters between the states of the Persian or Arabian Gulf and Iran after an attributed explosion and without confirmation of a magnetic mine.

The Norwegian shipowners of the Front advanced that the crews are safe, after a rescue operation of a specialized Iranian agency.

A second oil tanker, the Japanese owned Kokaku Valiente, was also left adrift, according to unconfirmed reports.

Thursday's attacks come almost a month after four others in UAE jurisdictional waters and near the Ormuz Strait, a strategic channel for global oil supplies.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Yavad Zarif described as suspicious the incidents that occurred during the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the Islamic Republic.

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