An oil tanker anchored off Kuwait reported late on Wednesday a large explosion and a subsequent leak from a cargo tank, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), a Royal Navy-sponsored organization, said on Thursday as the war in the Middle East escalates and tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has come to a halt. UKMTO said it had received a report of an incident 30 nautical miles south east of Mubarak Al Kabeer, Kuwait. “The Master of a tanker at anchor, reports witnessing and hearing a large…