Engine failure
Damaged freighter blocks Turkish strait
The Turkish authorities temporarily suspended shipping traffic in the Dardanelles Strait on Saturday due to engine damage to a cargo ship. The stranded freighter was towed away.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen It was a Liberian-flagged ship on its way from Romania to France, the state news agency Anadolu reported on Saturday. Three tug boats were sent to the freighter.
The almost 290-metre-long freighter Capt Nature had broken down near the Canakkale-1915 bridge. The strait was cleared again after around two and a half hours.
The Dardanelles are a strait in the Mediterranean belonging to Turkey between the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara, which in turn is connected to the Black Sea via the adjoining Bosporus.
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