Some extra hassle to report Friday in Turkish waters with the Gibraltar-flagged cargo ship MV Schillig operating aground whereas transiting the Dardanelles strait.

Turkey’s General Directorate of Coastal Safety says that the two,415 gross ton dry cargo ship ran aground on Friday at roughly 01:31 whereas heading south by way of the strait. A tugboat and Coast Guard vessel have been on scene and no air pollution has been reported, the company mentioned.

The grounding is the most recent in a string of incidents involving business ships to hit Turkish waters in latest months, significantly the within the Bosphorus Strait and better Turkish straits, together with the Dardanelles. Here’s a listing we’ve been compiling:

• June: A completely-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 as a result of adrift basic cargo ship.
• September 1: A tanker and bulk service collided close to northern entrance of Bosphorus Strait.

The Turkish straits – together with the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles – collectively join the Black Sea with the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas.

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