Reuters.com reports that Turkey announced on Monday the route for a planned canal that would reduce shipping traffic on the busy Bosphorus Strait and transform the European half of Istanbul into an island.
Work on the 45-km (28-mile) Kanal Istanbul, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara west of the Bosphorus, will start this year, Transport Minister Ahmet Arslan said, adding it formed part of Turkey’s most expensive construction project.
The Bosphorus is one of the world’s busiest waterways with 42,000 vessels passing through in 2016 – compared with 16,800 that transited the Suez Canal during the same year.
It is the only maritime outlet to the oceans for Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine and Georgia, as well as for Russia’s Black Sea ports.
Source: reuters.com
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