The Russian oil tanker Aqua Titan, originally bound for China, has reached India’s west coast and is the first of at least seven such vessels diverted towards the country amid global supply disruptions.

The medium-sized tanker, which was loaded at a Baltic Sea port in late January, was originally bound for the Chinese port of Rizhao. However, it did a U-turn in mid-March, days after India received a temporary waiver from the US to buy “sanctioned” Russian oil stranded at sea.