Greek shipowner George Prokopiou’s first tanker appears to have cleared the Strait of Hormuz after loading crude in the Gulf, in one of the earliest such passages by a major vessel since traffic through the waterway slumped amid rising regional tension.
The Shenlong, operated by Dynacom Tankers Management, is carrying about 1 million barrels of Saudi crude, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg.
The vessel switched off its AIS
