Statoil ASA (STO) is the latest company to look to send North Sea oil to South Korea in June as part of an increasingly common trade that until last year was virtually unheard of, ship brokers said Thursday.

Shipping fixtures showed that the company had provisionally booked the supertanker Front Circassia to lift oil from Hound Point in the U.K. on June 12.

A previous booking by Chevron Corp (CVX) to make the same voyage was cancelled, the shipping fixtures showed.

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