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Turkey reveals Dardanelles ship traffic stats

Business Materials 21 February 2018 11:54 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 21

By Rufiz Hafizoglu – Trend:

In 2017, 44,615 ships with gross tonnage totaling 823.4 million tons passed through Dardanelles strait, Turkey’s Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications revealed in its report.

According to the report, 9,478 tankers passed through the strait in 2017.

A table of ship traffic through Dardanelles:

Month

Number of ships

Gross tonnage

Number of tankers

With crude oil

With liquefied gas

With chemical products

January

3,470

63,062,743

532

74

222

February

3,069

57,829,793

466

70

190

March

3,861

69,585,636

600

67

189

April

3,650

66,704,052

514

76

220

May

3,909

71,181,105

524

76

245

June

3,637

66,342,862

511

49

233

July

3,714

70,567,480

513

51

243

August

3,854

73,192,622

478

52

209

September

3,620

68,651,072

428

41

192

October

4,035

73,417,243

507

46

220

November

3,891

70,744,284

540

52

199

December

3,905

72,181,744

532

80

237

Total

42,978

823,460,636

6,145

734

2,599

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