Dhaka, April 25 -- An oil tanker carrying 100,000 tonnes of crude oil from Saudi Arabia is expected to reach the outer anchorage of Chattogram Port on the night of May 5 as it has now crossed the Red Sea, officials said.

"The MT Ninemia is carrying the crude oil, and it has already crossed the Red Sea. We expect the ship to reach the outer anchorage Chattogram Port on the night of May 5," state-run Eastern Refinery Plc's managing director Md Sharif Hasnat said, BSS reports.

He said the ship manoeuvred its way through Yemen's Houthi-controlled coastlines and bypassed the war zone of the Strait of Hormuz and reached safe areas in the Arabian Sea on its way to Bay of Bengal.

Hasnat said the ship departed from Yanbu port in Saudi Arabia's ...