Ukraine is holding consultations with Turkey on technical issues regarding the passage through the Bosporus Strait by gas tankers to the country's future LNG terminal, Ukrainian Ambassador to Turkey Serhiy Korsunsky said in Istanbul on Tuesday at a presentation of the Ukrainian projects.
"The Bosporus Strait is open to us under an international convention. However, the strait is overloaded, and one cannot confirm that a tanker will pass through the strait every Friday, for example. There has been a case of vessels waiting for a month for a storm in the Black Sea to die," he said.
The diplomat said that due to the shallow depth and narrowness of some parts of the Bosporus Strait, passage through it is a technically difficult issue. There is always a line of vessels waiting near the strait.
Nevertheless, Head of the State Agency for Investments and Management of National Projects Vladyslav Kaskiv said that this should not present great difficulties.
"Around 50,000 vessels pass through the Bosporus Strait every year, while we need 50-70 vessels to pass it,' he said.
