Oil Tanker Carrying Iraqi Cargo Seen Transiting Strait of Hormuz
A billboard with a sentence reading 'The Strait of Hormuz remains closed' at the Enqelab Square in Tehran, on April 5.
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An oil tanker carrying crude from Iraq appeared to be transiting the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint, a day after Iran said its neighbor had special exemption to use the waterway.
The Suezmax Ocean Thunder picked up its cargo from Iraq’s Basrah terminal in early March and is now bound for Malaysia, according to tanker-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg. Such vessels can carry about 1 million barrels of crude. The Asian nation has also received dispensation to use the strait, which is blocked for most other countries.