The Iraqi Oil Tankers Company has shipped 2 million barrels of Iraqi crude through the Strait of Hormuz aboard a single giant tanker. The company describes the run as the first operation of its kind in decades. It lands at a tense moment, with the waterway hit by a wave of attacks on tankers over the past week. The strait is one of the busiest energy corridors on earth, moving a large share of the world's seaborne crude, which makes a transit of this scale stand out. Iraqi shipping had largely avoided loads of this size through the chokepoint for years, which explains why the company frames the voyage as a return. The move will likely be read as a signal that Baghdad sees the route as navigable despite the recent strikes. The report did not give the tanker's destination or say which customers bought the cargo.