Amid Tensions, Second Japanese Tanker Successfully Passes Hormuz Strait

This is when the Eneos Endeavor supertanker. (Dok.eneos endeavor)

JAKARTA - The tanker owned by Japanese energy company ENEOS, Eneos Endeavor, arrived at the Yokohama refinery on Saturday after successfully crossing the Strait of Hormuz, according to a report in the Nikkei newspaper.

Eneos Endeavor is the second Japanese tanker to arrive in the country after passing through the Strait of Hormuz following the crisis in the Middle East.

The first tanker was the Idemitsu Maru owned by the Japanese company Idemitsu Kosan which arrived off the coast of Japan on May 25.

Eneos Endeavor, which carried 2.15 million barrels of oil from Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), first docked at the Eneos terminal in the port of Kiire - one of the world's largest crude oil loading and storage centers.

There the ship unloaded 900,000 barrels before continuing on to the Negishi refinery in Yokohama, where the ship unloaded the remaining 1.25 million barrels. That amount was enough to keep Negishi's plant operational for eight days.

Currently, 38 Japanese-bound vessels, including seven oil tankers, are still in the Persian Gulf.