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The Kai Jing, a Very Large Crude Carrier operated by China Merchants Energy Shipping, passed through the Red Sea's Bab el-Mandeb Strait on March 16 carrying 2.2 million barrels of Saudi crude—the first Chinese supertanker to bypass the Strait of Hormuz since its de facto closure on March ...

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