A tanker is due to dock today in the key oil port of Tobruk to pick up the first oil cargo from the rebel-held part of Libya in 18 days, a spokesman for Lloyd's List said.

"There is a tanker which is scheduled to arrive later today at the oil terminal near Tobruk, according to Lloyd's Intelligence checking data," said Michelle Wiese Bockmann, markets editor of Lloyd's List, a shipping news and data provider.

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