Pakistan Oil Tanker Transits Hormuz After Hugging Iran Coast

A tanker laden with crude oil appears to have cleared the Strait of Hormuz and is now sailing to Pakistan, according to ship-tracking data, making it the latest in just a trickle of vessels that have left the Persian Gulf since US and Israeli strikes on Iran began.

The Karachi, controlled by Pakistan’s National Shipping Corp., made the perilous journey over the course of Sunday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. By Monday morning, the Pakistan-flagged Aframax was seen in the waters off Oman’s Sohar. The ship sailed from Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates last month and picked up a cargo from inside the Persian Gulf a few days later, the data show.