Turkey’s maritime authority claimed on Thursday it would certainly remain to obstruct the flow of oil vessels without suitable insurance policy letters, including that the insurance policy examine ships in its waters was a “routine procedure.”
A Turkish step effective because the begin of the month has actually created delivery hold-ups. It needs vessels to supply evidence of insurance policy covering the period of their transportation via the Bosphorus strait or when calling at Turkish ports.
(Reuters – Reporting by Ece Toksabay as well as Can Sezer; Editing by Jonathan Spicer)