For most of the war, the Bosporus itself has been the quiet part of the Black Sea. Ships queued off Istanbul, paid their lighthouse fees and went north or south as they always had. The danger began past Rumeli Feneri, at the strait's northern mouth. In 2026 that danger moved…
At about ten past seven on the evening of 11 October 2026, the Maltese-flagged tanker Ivyan lost her engine in the middle of the Bosporus. The…
About 110 ships a day sail through the middle of Istanbul. Turkey's transport ministry counted 40,172 transits of the Bosporus in 2025, and another…
On 7 April 2018 a Maltese-flagged bulk carrier, the Vitaspirit, lost steering while heading south through the Bosporus and drove straight into the…
On a map the Bosporus looks like a river. It runs about 31 kilometres from the Black Sea at Rumeli Feneri and Anadolu Feneri down to the Sea of…
Between January and June 2026, 19,277 ships passed through the Bosporus, according to Turkey's transport ministry. That is 107 a day, slightly fewer…
On 6 January 2026 the tanker Elbus, flagged in Palau and heading for a Russian port, sailed north through the Bosporus past Dolmabahçe, Bebek and…
A tanker leaving Novorossiysk for the Mediterranean doesn't pass one strait. It passes a system about 370 kilometres long: the Bosporus through…
