A tanker carrying two million barrels of crude oil is heading towards Europe, having left the Gulf at the end of May, the first such shipment since March, Reuters reports citing data from the maritime tracking firm Kpler.

The Advantage Victory, a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker, passed through the Strait of Hormuz on May 27 without indicating its destination.

The vessel revealed its destination only on Monday, with its AIS signal indicating “NL RTM”, the code for Rotterdam in the Netherlands, one of Europe’s biggest ports. It is scheduled to arrive on July 7.

The tanker, which was loaded with Iraqi oil at Basra on February 24 and March 1, is currently off the coast of Madagascar, according to its transponder.

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