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Turkey reveals Bosphorus ship traffic stats

Business Materials 21 February 2018 11:53 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 21

By Rufiz Hafizoglu – Trend:

In 2017, 42,978 ships with gross tonnage totaling 599.3 million tons passed through Bosphorus strait, Turkey’s Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications revealed in its report.

According to the report, 8,832 tankers passed through the strait in 2017.

A table of ship traffic through Bosphorus:

Month

Number of ships

Gross tonnage

Number of tankers

With crude oil

With liquefied gas

With chemical products

January

3,417

46,327,093

555

61

145

February

2,919

40,481,720

474

64

132

March

3,744

51,966,688

611

72

159

April

3,511

47,763,199

484

78

169

May

3,778

51,638,407

523

70

184

June

3,521

48,292,804

510

55

170

July

3,455

48,897,723

492

64

158

August

3,712

54,168,194

488

58

147

September

3,378

51,024,012

456

49

129

October

3,861

52,987,789

510

49

170

November

3,809

53,165,444

546

51

161

December

3,873

52,611,675

563

71

154

Total

42,978

599,324,748

6,212

742

1,878

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