“The Suez Canal is a more intense strait, its blockade was long. In this case, the Bosphorus was closed for the operation of refloating the dry cargo ship, that is, the possibility of passing other ships is maintained. This canal is wider than the Suez, and ships move along it much less, “Lipatov commented on the situation.
Delays, but will not give rise to critics, believes the expert.
As can be seen from the map, the place where the ship ran aground is quite wide, so the situation like the Suez Canal, which was blocked on March 23 by the stranded ship Ever Given, will not happen again. It will not work to turn the ship on its side and close everything, Lipatov noted.
The Catorone ship with dimensions of 325×39 meters carried out pipe laying work at great depths. Six months ago she passed through the Bosphorus and headed for the Black Sea. Having completed work in northwestern Turkey, on January 12, the ship entered the Bosphorus from the Black Sea. On the morning of January 16, a dry cargo ship blocked the strait in Istanbul, running aground.
On the afternoon of January 16, the ship was refloated. But, according to media reports, the queue of ships waiting to cross the Bosphorus from south to north stretched for tens of kilometers along the coast of the Marmara Sea.
