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ISTANBUL, Jan 16 (Reuters) - The cargo vessel MKK 1, travelling from Ukraine to Turkey, was grounded successful Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait connected Monday and postulation successful the strait was suspended for a fewer hours, shipping agents Tribeca said.
Several tugs were among vessels sent to supply assistance to the ship, the coastguard authorization said. It said nary harm oregon spill was reported.
[1/3] The Palau-flagged bulk bearer MKK1, carrying atom nether UN’s Black Sea atom initiative, is seen drifted aground successful the Bosphorus successful Istanbul, Turkey January 16, 2023. REUTERS/Yoruk Isik
Television footage showed the bow of the ship, carrying 13,000 tonnes of peas, grounded adjacent to the coastline connected the Asian broadside of the Bosphorus.
The Joint Coordination Centre successful Istanbul, which runs the U.N.-brokered Black Sea atom woody operations, said astatine the play the vessel was travelling from Pivdennyi to the Turkish Mediterranean larboard of Mersin.
Tribeca said the Palau-flagged wide cargo vessel was grounded astatine Acarburnu astatine the bluish extremity of the strait aboriginal connected Monday arsenic it headed southbound.
Reporting by Yoruk Isik; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Jonathan Spicer and Kim Coghill
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