The first shipment of Canadian crude oil since 2025 is headed to Japan on a ship chartered by Exxon Mobil, according to data released by tracking firm Kpler. The Marshall Islands-flagged vessel, Freedom Glory, which can carry up to 750,000 barrels of crude, left Vancouver on Wednesday, loaded with Trans Mountain pipeline (TMX) crude. Now, Japan is among several Asian countries urgently attempting to diversify their suppliers, after the war choked oil shipments through Hormuz. The Trans Mountain pipeline carries up to 890,000 barrels of crude oil a day from Canada’s Alberta to a marine terminal in Burnaby, British Columbia. And so, when you’re a supplier of a key commodity… you gotta think really hard about not supplying,” Carney replied when asked whether he would use Canada’s oil as a pressure tactic.