Bosporus Strait

Sep 23, 11:31 Turkey’s Bosporus to be closed for naval exercises on Sept. 29 Transit for vess...

seagull Sep 23, 11:31
Turkey’s Bosporus to be closed for naval exercises on Sept. 29
Transit for vessels traveling though Turkey’s Bosporus Strait will be suspended for four hours on Sept. 29 to allow for emergency naval exercises, shipping information provider the Gulf Agency Co. said., Bloomberg reports. The Bosporus will be closed between 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. local time Sept. 29, GAC shipping operator Mutlu Tutuncu said by phone from Istanbul, citing information from the Turkish Vessel Traffic Center. About 55,000 vessels pass through the strait each year, GAC said in an e-mailed report, referring to data from the Turkish ministry of environment and urbanization.

Source: shippingazette.com

May 6 '11, 9:15 Turkey reconsiders discounted transit fees for ships Bosporus passage Turkey is...

seagull May 6 '11, 9:15
Turkey reconsiders discounted transit fees for ships Bosporus passage
Turkey is studying ways to make it more attractive for commercial ships to travel through a proposed canal that would be built in the next decade as an alternative to the heavily congested Bosporus Strait, Associated Press reports.

Transportation Minister Mehmet Habib Soluk said Thursday that Turkey could reconsider its policy of charging discounted fees for transit through the Bosporus Strait, a possible hint that those fees might be raised.

Increasing the Bosporus fees could encourage ships to use the proposed Canal Istanbul.

The new canal would create a second waterway linking the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.

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