Bulk Carrier Aground in Accident-Prone Bosphorus Strait

Another incident to report at this time in Turkey’s Bosphorus Strait, this time involving a laden bulk service that grounded throughout a transit of Strait and could also be leaking oil.

According to Turkey’s General Directorate of Coastal Safety, the Panama-flagged MV El Condor Pasa ran aground Wednesday throughout a northbound transit of the Bosphorus Strait. The 20,157 DWT bulk service carrying a cargo of coal on the time of the incident, the group mentioned.

Rescue boats and a tug have been dispatched to the realm amid fears that the vessel could have leaked oil.

The General Directorate of Coastal Safety mentioned the 177-meter vessel grounded regardless of warnings from the Istanbul Vessel Traffic Service.

The Bosphorus Strait is a part of the Turkish Straits connecting the Black Sea with the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas through the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles. The space has been so accident-prone in latest months that we’ve began compiling a listing:

June: A totally-laden Suezmax tanker was onerous aground close to Istanbul.
June: Cruise ship with tons of of passengers and a chemical tanker carrying flammable naphtha collided within the Dardanelles Strait, inflicting injury however no accidents.
July: A basic cargo ship carrying fertilizer ran onerous aground in Dardanelles strait.
July: A cargo ship smashed a home within the Bosphorus. Seriously.
July: A Turkish-flagged cargo ship sank and one particular person died after colliding with freighter close to the Bosphorus Strait’s Black Sea entrance.
August: A capesize coal service lost power in Bosphorus, needed to be rescued.
August: Bosphorus closed because of adrift basic cargo ship.
September: A bulk service collided with a tanker within the Bosphorus roughly 8 nautical miles from the northern entrance.