Turkey’s Besiktas Shipping Group announced Saturday, April 13, that one of its vessels collided with a Cambodian-flagged ship at the Dardanelles Strait, linking the Mediterranean with the Black Sea, reported the Anatolia news agency.
”The Salih Kalkavan Ship, which weighs 18,829 gross tons, collided with Cambodian Noor Alamal ship, weighing 4,791 gross tons at 9:05 p.m. local time, Friday at Zincirbozan area of the Turkish Strait,” a Besiktas statement read.
“At that time, we observed that the Cambodian whip was sailing on a wrong route and was making dangerous turns. It ignored all the warnings and continued its unsafe turns,” the statement continued, adding that no sea pollution was caused by the accident.
Besiktas owns eleven tankers between 600 and 10,000 dwt. — (menareport.com)
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